Conjoined twins to get separated by Hungarian doctors

Rabia and Rukiya are normal two-year-old girls except one thing. They are conjoined by their heads. Their parents wanted to separate them, but no doctors in the world have ever attempted to perform such a risky operation. Yet, as blikk.hu reports, a Hungarian team of three were brave enough to do so.

Dr András Csókay told Blikk that the little ones’ skulls had were healed and the palliums clumped together. Furthermore, they also shared the main vein network in their brains.

As he was reading the MR results, it came to his mind that they could look at the case as if it was a big brain tumor. That means that they would close the veins to make the blood flow another way. This is what they actually did with a catheter method.

The doctors

Dr András Csókay and Gergely Pataki, plastic surgeon, travelled together to Bangladesh last year and this was when they met the two girls. Dr Csókay was sure about dr István Hudák’s expertise. It was because they both worked at the Honvédkórház (Hungarian Homeland Defence Hospital). Moreover, dr Hudák is acknowledged in many different countries from where he is usually called to solve difficult cases.