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 Conjoined Korean Twins Set for Singapore Surgery
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Conjoined Korean Twins Set for Singapore Surgery
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Two weeks after a failed attempt to separate Iranian twins, four-month-old conjoined South Korean sisters will undergo surgery to separate them at the same Singapore hospital, state television said on Monday.
The operation to separate the babies joined at the lower spine could start as early as Tuesday if tests go well, Channel News Asia reported.
A team of 10 surgeons had been assembled for the surgery which was expected to last around 10 hours, it said.
Raffles Hospital spokeswoman Liang Hwee Ting told Reuters earlier on Monday that results of tests carried out on the babies over the weekend were still pending.
The parents of the Korean twins had sought the advice of experts at Raffles Hospital before it began a high-profile operation to separate Laleh and Ladan Bijani, Iranian twins joined at the head, which ended tragically on July 8.
The 29-year-old law graduates lost a lot of blood as the 52-hour operation to separate them was coming to an end.
Their deaths sparked a heated debate on the ethics of such a life-threatening operation, with some medical experts concerned about what they saw as the haste and motive behind the surgery.
But the parents of the Korean twins are determined to go ahead with the surgery, the station said.
Min Seung-joon, father of the twins, said the Singaporean medical team had given the twins a better than 85 percent chance of survival.
The twins, their parents and grandparents, had traveled to Singapore in mid-June for tests.
The parents had sought the help of Dr Keith Goh after hearing of his success in disentangling the fused skulls and brains of 11-month-old Nepali sisters in 2001.
"The situation with the Korean twins is definitely less complicated," a medical source involved in the Bijani twins' separation surgery told Reuters.
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