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Sensational! Siamese Bangladeshi twins arrive in Budapest for treatment
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The conjoined Bangladeshi twins joined at the skull, whose separation the Hungarian surgeon team of the Action for Defenceless People Foundation was the only one in the world to agree to undertake, are arriving in Budapest on Saturday. The two-year-old Rabia and Rukia are now coming in Hungary so that the diagnostic and preliminary tests needed for the final cranial separation operation, as well as the special plastic surgery operation to implant tissue expanders, can be carried out at Semmelweis University’s various departments.
As we wrote last year, 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, a Hungarian team of three were brave enough to do so. Read more HERE.
According to Semmelweis Univerity statement, the first part of a series of operations that is comprised of three main stages, the endovascular separation of the large veins of the brain, was completed successfully by the foundation’s three-person medical team in Bangladesh in two steps in February and August last year.
The Action for Defenceless People Foundation is bringing the craniopagus (joined at the skull) twins to Hungary so that the next stage in the series of operations, the plastic surgery, can be carried out under more ideal circumstances from a professional medical standpoint, and with the most efficient equipment available.