Separated Siamese Great Ormond Street doctors
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The Siamese twins' father, Dr. Abdulmajeed Gaboura, says "they like to be close"
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Twins born joined at the head have been separated successfully by a team of British doctors.
Girls and babies Rital Gaboura Ritag, which are 11 months old, were separated on August 15 after four operations at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children.
They do not seem to have suffered neurological side effects. The chances of surviving the disease rarely get to one in 10 million.
Children of Sudan were moved to the UK for the charity that the world faces.
Siamese are very rare - only one in every 2.5 million births - and only 5% of conjoined twins are craniopagus, which means they are fused to the head.
About 40% of twins fused at the head are stillborn or die during childbirth and a third die within 24 hours.
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We are very grateful to look forward to going home with two separate girls, healthy "
Parents of twins
The nature of the condition of the twins important meaning of blood flowed from their brains.
Ritag supplies half of the brain of his sister's blood, while most draining back into your heart. It was a life-threatening situation, because significant decreases in blood pressure in the brain could cause neurological damage.
The children were born by Caesarean section in Khartoum, Sudan.
Parents of girls who are doctors, said: "We are very grateful to look forward to going home with two separate girls, heal We are grateful to all physicians who volunteered their time and the World Cup. To organize all the logistics and payment of the surgery.
Parents have expressed their immense gratitude for the work performed by doctors
"We feel very fortunate that our girls have been able to have the surgery you need, but we also know of other children who need full sponsorship and families who are looking for someone to help them."
So far, the girls are reacting the same way to the tests and stimuli as they did before surgery, suggesting that they have not suffered neurological side effects.
However, their young age makes it difficult to determine whether this is definitely the case.
David Dunaway, plastic surgery and craniofacial unit at Great Ormond Street, was the primary physician and is also a board member of the World Cup.
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Surgeon Simon Eccles: "To see them now is difficult to believe that once joined together"
He said: "The incidence of twins to survive with this disease are extremely rare task presents numerous challenges and we were all very aware of our responsibilities towards the family and the two girls ..
"The family have been very brave Gaboura along a very stressful journey and his love for his children is in sight. It is a testimony to the British public's support they are able to do any of the charities that we do. "
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