They were born on July 7 of last year and spent five months in the intensive care unit. On June 8 of last month, after a nine-hour surgery, they were separated.
Digital Desk: Conjoined twins Riddhi and Siddhi, who were joined from the chest and upper part of the belly, were successfully separated by doctors at AIIMS Delhi.
According to Dr. Minu Bajpai, chief of the Department of Paediatric Surgery, they were identified as thoraco-omphalopagus conjoined twins in the fourth month of Deepika Gupta's pregnancy in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.
Because there were no advanced medical facilities nearby, they were then referred to AIIMS, he claimed.
They were born on July 7 of last year and spent five months in the intensive care unit. On June 8 of last month, after a nine-hour surgery, they were separated.
The twin girls celebrated their first birthday at the hospital.
"The anomaly included joined rib cages, livers, partially common diaphragms, and fused pericardiums (the outer cover of the heart). Almost touching and beating together, both hearts were in close contact to one another. The pericardium was partially fused,” an additional professor in the department of paediatric surgery.
The kids had surgery when they were 11 months old, when they could handle the shock of the procedure, he claimed.
According to Dr. Bajpai, the procedure took place in the recently inaugurated Mother and Child Block at AIIMS while the patient was under general anaesthesia. He added that the procedure took close to 9 hours to complete when pre- and post-operative anaesthesia were included in.
"Steps in the surgery included dividing the fused rib cage, separating the common abdomen and chest walls, and dividing the liver tissue such that there was enough for each infant. Additionally, the diaphragm and pericardium had to be separated," according to Dr. Bajpai.
Each twin's surgical repair was carried out separately, Dr. Goel continued.
Prosthetic tissues and grafts were kept on hand in case they were needed, but the children had enough native tissues to repair effectively, according to him.
To the relief of their parents Deepika and Ankur Gupta, the kids are still admitted but are now doing well. They were so grateful to the physicians for saving the kids that their joy knew no boundaries.
"When the surgery was being carried out, we were really concerned. But God and doctors gave our girls a second chance at life, said Deepika. In the past three years, the Paediatric Surgery division has successfully divided three sets of conjoined twins, with Riddhi and Siddhi's cases being the most recent.
The spinal cord and significant vessels of the lower body and legs were shared by the first and second sets of twins, who were united at the hip. In 2020, the first procedure was carried out, and in 2021, the second.
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