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| The girls when they were babies |
Zainab and Jannat Rahman were born at Homerton Hospital in East London on December 1, 2002. Doctors were extremely pessimistic about their condition and predicted that they would only have a one-in-a-million chance of survival.
But they were successfully separated!
In what way were they conjoined?
Zainab and Jannat are omphalopagus twins. They were conjoined from chest to abdomen and shared a liver.
Their separation
But they were successfully separated!
In what way were they conjoined?
Zainab and Jannat are omphalopagus twins. They were conjoined from chest to abdomen and shared a liver.
Their separation
Their parents call them 'miracle princesses' and it is no wonder. They were extremely fortunate that they had individual hearts and that the only organ they shared was the liver - the only organ in the human body capable of regenerating - which enabled a separation. However, Jannat had a hole in her heart which needed to be operated on.
They were separated on 15 January 2003 in only 45 minutes. There was a huge risk as Jannat had 40% of the liver and the join was less than a centimetre from their hearts! Two days later, Jannat had to be operated on again due to the hole in her heart and suffered an infection and a twisted bowel. Fortunately, both survived and were only the third set of conjoined twins to survive in Britain!
How they lead their normal lives
The twins have recently celebrated their tenth birthdays.
They have different personalities, but sometimes they switch. One week Zainab can be caring and another week Jannat would be the caring one. Although they often fight like normal siblings, they are extremely close. Well, this is probably due to the power of twins!
They were separated on 15 January 2003 in only 45 minutes. There was a huge risk as Jannat had 40% of the liver and the join was less than a centimetre from their hearts! Two days later, Jannat had to be operated on again due to the hole in her heart and suffered an infection and a twisted bowel. Fortunately, both survived and were only the third set of conjoined twins to survive in Britain!
How they lead their normal lives
The twins have recently celebrated their tenth birthdays.
They have different personalities, but sometimes they switch. One week Zainab can be caring and another week Jannat would be the caring one. Although they often fight like normal siblings, they are extremely close. Well, this is probably due to the power of twins!
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| The girls now |
For more info, click on:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/real-life-stories/siamese-twins-whose-survival-amazed-1510402
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1420167/Separated-twins-are-miracle.html
