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Article: Conjoined twins die in hospital after three weeks
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2002
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THE CONJOINED twins born nearly three weeks ago in London sharing
a heart and liver died in Great Ormond Street Hospital yesterday.
Natasha and Courtney Smith had been given only a small chance of
survival by doctors.
Their parents, Tina May, 23, and Dennis Smith, 33, from St Albans,
Hertfordshire, were at their daughters' bedside when their condition
deteriorated. They died at 5.50pm.
Professor Lewis Spitz, professor of paediatric surgery at Great
Ormond Street, said: "We offer our sincere condolences to their
parents during this extremely sad and difficult time.
"These unhappy events are broadly as we expected. The structure
of, and the blood supply to, the twins' heart was so complex ...