Conjoined twin girls from the Dominican Republic were recovering Tuesday at a Virginia hospital after undergoing complicated, nearly daylong surgical procedures to separate them.
Maria and Teresa Tapia were born joined at the lower chest and abdomen, sharing a liver, pancreas and portion of the small intestine.
A team led by Dr. David Lanning, surgeon-in-chief at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at Virginia Commonwealth University, completed a 20-hour surgery on Maria and an 18.5-hour surgery on Teresa. Lanning said at a news conference Tuesday the toddlers were in stable condition in the pediatric intensive care unit, and that he expects the 19-month-olds to fully recover and ‘grow up to be healthy, young independent girls’.
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