Separated Siamese twins in central China's Hunan leave ICU at one month

CHANGSHA. April 16. KAZINFORM Siamese twin sisters in China's Hunan Province were declared out of danger Thursday as they were transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital about two weeks after separation surgery, Kazinform refers to Xinhua.
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Doctors at the Hunan Children's Hospital in the provincial capital of Changsha successfully separated the twins on April 1. The girls were born connected from their breastbones to their abdomens, with one liver. They were separated just two weeks afterbirth. At their one-month check-up Thursday, one baby weighed 3,050 grams and the other 3,095 gm. They weighed 4,800 gm together at birth on March 16. They were both 49 cm long Thursday. The twins were fed intravenously and depended on respirators during their first week of life. Doctors said both were out of danger of infection from septicemia and severe pneumonia. Their 28-year-old mother, Duan Xiaoyan, was allowed to touch her babies and learn to massage them Thursday, after the twins were transferred to a neonatal ward, Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version.
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