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Article: Conjoined twins die shortly after parting; The surgery was the first bid to separate a pair of adult twins born joined at the head
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2003
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SINGAPORE (AP) - Fifty grueling hours into an unprecedented
operation to separate adult twins conjoined at the head, Dr. Keith
Goh's heart sank.
He was working furiously Tuesday to save Laleh Bijani, who began
bleeding profusely the moment surgeons made the final cut to separate
her from her sister, Ladan.
Gone was the sound of classical music that played the day before
in the small, gleaming operating room crowded with doctors and
assistants in aqua scrubs. The room now was mostly silent except for
the surgeons' instructions and the beeps and pulses of the monitors.
Then Goh glanced over at Ladan. She was losing blood even faster.
The 29-year-old Iranian twins died shortly thereafter - ...