'Youngest' conjoined twins separated at Swiss hospital in Bern

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Source: BBC

12 minutes ago

Doctors in Switzerland say they have separated eight-day-old conjoined twin girls, believed to be the youngest babies to be successfully parted.

The twins, born in December, were fused at the liver and chest.

Swiss media say doctors had originally planned to separate them when they were several months old but brought the operation forward when they each suffered a life-threatening condition.

The operation reportedly carried a 1% chance of success.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35454476

[ChiTownDenny]

1. Switzerland is a land with many hills.

Happy to hear the good news.

[stopwastingmymoney]

2. Wow, that's amazing

There are pictures at the link, such tiny babies

[ErisDiscordia]

3. Probably the easiest of such surgeries

Livers can regenerate. Then plastic surgery for the bone and skin...long life and good health to them! And praise to the medical staff.

[B2G]

6. The 'easiest of such surgeries', with a 1% chance of success?

That makes no sense.

[LisaL]

7. Obviously it wasn't an easy surgery.

Sounds like the doctors originally wanted to wait until children are older but couldn't, because both children developed severe problems due to being conjoined.

[ErisDiscordia]

8. Most often, only one child survives.

[LittleGirl]

4. Yeah!

[awoke_in_2003]

5. That is how

Cheng and Eng were joined.

[winstars]

9. Ben Carson???