A delicate operation that separated two small Siamese cameroonese connected by the abdomen was held Wednesday "successfully", announced the Hospices Civils de Lyon: Bissie and Eyenga Merveille are now twins.
Born on November 6, 2018 in Cameroon, the little girls were separated by the experts of the pediatric surgery department of the Mother-Child Hospital-HCL. They were connected by the abdomen with part of the liver in common, say the HCL in a statement. They are currently in intensive care in a stable state.
A five-hour operation
The operation lasted five hours and mobilized two teams to care for each baby, about twenty people. This is a first for one of the largest pediatric hospitals in France.
"We have established a pool of anesthesiologists, surgeons and resuscitators and each specialty has evaluated and evaluated the very specific care of girls," says Professor Pierre-Yves Mure, deputy head of pediatric surgery at the mother-child woman hospital, quoted in the statement. "Each member of the team has adapted his practice to the atypical morphology of the two small," he says.
"As a specialist in liver transplantation, I intervened on this organ and I did not have any complications," adds Dr. Rémi Dubois, a practitioner of the facility.
Their mother had been rejected by their father
Upon release from resuscitation, the children will be transferred to the pediatric surgery department for follow-up care and rehabilitation. The girls were seen, along with their mother, by a psychologist and their psychological and psychomotor fate will be monitored.
Rejected by the father of the small Siamese and a part of the family, their mother had taken refuge in the pediatric gyneco-obstetrical hospital of Yaoundé where the babies had grown up waiting for the operation. In 2015, the Chaîne de l'Espoir had already repatriated two Siamese babies from Guinea Conakry, operated successfully at the Necker Enfants Malades hospital in Paris.