DOCTORS STUDY SEPARATION CHANCE FOR SIAMESE TWINS.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Doctors are trying to determine whether week-old Siamese twins Siamese twins, congenitally united organisms that are complete or nearly complete individuals. They develop from a single fertilized ovum that has divided imperfectly; complete division would produce identical twins, having the same sex and general characteristics. joined at the chest can be successfully separated. The twins, who were born in a Tijuana clinic, arrived Friday at Children's Hospital A children's hospital is a hospital which offers its services exclusively to children. The number of children's hospitals proliferated in the 20th century, as pediatric medical and surgical specialties separated from internal medicine and adult surgical specialties. in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. . They were born Jan. 12 to Maria Luisa Espinoza and Miguel Angel Morales of Tijuana. Doctors were testing the two girls, named Sarah and Sarahi, to find out how many organs they share. They know that each has her own heart, but both have heart problems. Planning such surgery "is analogous to a moon shot or a shuttle launch or something like that," said Dr. John J. Lamberti, director of Children's Cardiac Institute. "We need to have everything well understood, and it has to be timed like a ballet." Because the children are from Mexico, the state of California will not pay for their care. But officials said Children's Hospital and its physicians will donate their time and resources. |
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