RIO DE JANEIRO: Conjoined twins born in Brazil with a fused head and brain have been separated in what doctors described on Monday (Tuesday in Manila) as the most complex surgery of its kind, which they prepared for using virtual reality. Arthur and Bernardo Lima were born in 2018 in Brazil's northern state of Roraima as craniopagus twins, an extremely rare condition in which the siblings are fused at the cranium. Members of the medical team, which included nearly 100 staff, prepared for the delicate final stages of the surgery on June 7 and 9 with the help of virtual reality. British neurosurgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani, the lead surgeon for Gemini Untwined, called the prep session "space-age stuff." "To do it in virtual reality was just really man-on-Mars stuff."

Source: Manila Times August 03, 2022 05:34 UTC