News Comment #3

Hospital celebrates after conjoined twins separated

Dr. Max Langham spent all thirteen hours on August 29th separating Joshua and Jacob Spates. They were conjoined at their spines at birth and seven months in they had the surgery to separate them. “Most conjoined twins don’t ever get a chance to get to separation because they die from complications at delivery,” said Langham. Luckily this only occurs one time out of every 100,000 births. The two were luckily joined at the spine therefore they had a better chance of living on a normal life without many complications.

Myself being a twin I was fortunate enough to not be attached to my brother. But I could imagine it would make life a lot more difficult not being able to do everyday normal activities. From the doctors standpoint it would be a very nerve wrecking procedure to complete. For more information visit Conjoined Twins Facts.

Filed by Andrew at September 15th, 2011 under News Comments