Two Bangladeshi twins look set to make a full recovery from surgery to part their conjoined heads, doctors said yesterday, as one woke up and started talking just two days after the operation.
Australian neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner said two-year-old Trishna and Krishna, rescued from a Dhaka orphanage, would both be “fine” despite the perilous procedure.
“Long-term, after seeing the scans I think they will be fine. It’s all looking really good,” Maixner told reporters at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital.
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Earlier Trishna, the stronger twin, awoke from a medical coma in “fantastic” condition, apparently shrugging off the 32-hour operation, which was initially given only a one-in-four chance of complete success.
Trishna, who was greeted by her guardian Moira Kelly, has floored doctors with her progress and is even ready to leave intensive care, Maixner said.
‘STORMY’
“Trishna we allowed to wake up overnight and she looks brilliant. She’s talking, she’s being Trishna, she’s behaving the way she always has done,” the surgeon said, adding that her sister’s recovery could be a “little stormy.”
“We will begin to wake her up later today, but it will be a slow wake-up,” she said. “Krishna still has to adjust to her new way of being and how long it will take her to do that is hard to estimate.”
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