Despite the seriousness, the health condition is considered “expected” and “natural”, says the surgeon who coordinated the operation, Zacharias Calil
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the siamese twins Valentina And Heloà Pradoaged 3, are hospitalized in serious condition in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), after surgery on separation of bodies. Despite the seriousness of the situation, the state of health of the children “is natural and expected”, says the Zechariah Calil, a pediatric surgeon who coordinated the team of more than 60 professionals responsible for the operation performed on Wednesday 11 at the State Hospital for Children and Adolescents (Hecad), in Goiânia. The sisters are from Guararema, in the hinterland of São Paulo, but have been under treatment for two years in Goiânia.
According to the medical bulletin released at 19:00 on this Thursday 12, Valentina And hi they are sedated, breathing on machines, but “on the mend”. They are given drugs to “sedate, relieve pain and maintain blood pressure”, as well as “antibiotics”. The sisters were joined by part of the chest, abdomen, pelvis, liver, small and large intestine, and genitals. Therefore, they underwent severe operations in these organs to perform the separation. The impact on the body was predictable.
“It was a major surgery, involving several specialties. An operation of this size becomes a real catastrophe for their whole organism”, explains the doctor. Despite the large impact, Calil trust in the healing of the sisters. One reason was the regularity of the children’s lungs and hearts during the 15 hours of surgery. The organs are still in good condition almost 24 hours after the procedure.
The physician also highlighted the quality of the clinical staff and hospital facility as critical to the recovery process. “Monitoring is done by professionals with a high technical level and equipment in a quantity and efficiency that few institutions have in Brazil,” he says.
Surgeries shouldn’t stop there. In about three weeks, Valentina And hi they will have another operation, to close the open area in the abdomen of both. For this, doctors will use tissue from your inner thighs and implant it into your belly. In March of last year, they underwent surgery to place skin expanders, but the tissue gain was not enough to cover the open areas, as the Siamese shared an abdomen.
On social media, the surgeon shared the moment when the sisters left the surgical center:
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