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The twins were separated in April 1997. Eighteen years later, sitting in the living room of their parents’ Copperfield home, they reflect on what it’s like to have more distance between them than they’ve ever known.
A set of conjoined twins made medical history in 1955, when they were separated and both survived. Now, Lillian Matthews-Hollins and Linda Matthews-Wilson are sharing their incredible story...
Doctors discovered that although the girls shared a chest and abdominal wall, diaphragm, and liver, the twins had separate, healthy hearts. Their shared liver was also large enough to divide...
Formerly conjoined twins Eva and Erika Sandoval are seen here celebrating their third birthday. This was the first birthday the twins, who were born conjoined and who had spent most of their young lives in a hospital, had celebrated as separate individuals. Doctors weren’t certain they would make it this far.
Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born March 7, 1990) are American conjoined twins. They are dicephalic parapagus twins (having two heads joined to one torso), and are highly symmetric for conjoined twins.
Charity and Kathleen Lincoln were conjoined at the torso when they were born more than two decades ago. They were connected at the sternum and shared several vital internal organs that were...
Abby and Brittany would have had to be separated right after birth. In fact, doctors suggested the procedure, when they saw the conjoined twins being born. However, the process might have meant the death of one sibling. Therefore, Patty and Mike, their parents, refused.
Doctors in Ohio performed a groundbreaking surgery to separate conjoined twins, the first of its kind due to the twins' age and the complexity of their condition.
Conjoined twins are very rare, occurring roughly once in every 50,000 births. CHOP is one of only a few hospitals in the country with experience separating conjoined twins. More than 28 pairs of conjoined twins have been separated at CHOP since 1957, the most of any hospital in the country.
Doctors at CHOP had separated 23 pairs of conjoined twins since 1957, more than any other hospital in the Western Hemisphere. That level of experience is what led their doctor to refer the couple there, and it is what convinced the couple to put their trust in CHOP.