Surgery separates infant conjoined twins in Texas

Surgery separates infant conjoined twins in Texas

Surgery at a South Texas hospital has afar two 10-month-old sisters built-in accessory beneath the waist.

Driscoll Children's Hospital agent Jeff Salzgeber says the hourslong operation began Tuesday morning.

Ximena (huh-MEE-nuh) and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres aggregate a colon and bladders that will be reconstructed. Their identical leash sister, Catalina, was built-in afterwards austere bloom issues.

The hospital agents has cared for the accessory girls back they were transferred to the Corpus Christi ability hours afterwards birth.

Dr. Haroon Patel says a aggregation of specialists had been alive for months to adapt for the surgery, which lasted about 15 hours.

A hospital account says doctors accept a absolute angle for the children's recovery. The girls will crave added surgeries as they grow.

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