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	Surgery under way to separate conjoined twins Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:39 pm

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Surgery under way to separate conjoined twins

PALO ALTO, Calif. (KGO) --
A team of surgeons at Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital is performing a complicated surgery today to give conjoined 2-year-old twins new freedom and a new life. The procedure is expected to take at least eight hours.

The surgery, involving some 30 medical personnel, was expected to begin at 6 a.m. The team has a long day ahead of it, but everyone is very optimistic about the outcome and the girls' future.

Angelina and Angelica Sabuco are attached at the chest and abdomen. The first hour of surgery is preparation, followed by six hours of separating the 2-year-old twins, and finally, two to three hours of reconstruction on their bodies.

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Story: Conjoined twin girls to be separated at Lucile Packard It's a long and tedious process, but the girls have one major thing going for them.

"We can determine... the hearts are separate, so that's a great relief for us," said pediatric radiologist Frandics Chan, MD. "The lungs are separate, [but] the livers are joined and so are their diaphragms."

"I explained to them, 'You are like this [places hands together], and soon you will be separated,'" said the twins' mother, Ginady Sabuco. "But I think they didn't understand yet."

Dr. Gary Hartman, who's the main pediatric surgeon, has done five separation surgeries. The last one at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital was in 2007 and it was more complicated. Those twins are doing well.

Angelina and Angelica were born in the Philippines but they now live in San Jose with their parents and 10-year-old brother.

The girls will likely be in the hospital for the next two to three weeks, recovering.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=8414044&rss=rss-kgo-article-8414044

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