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Identical Twins Survive Surgery in Womb
LONDON, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- British doctors say identical twin boys were born
healthy after undergoing surgery while in the womb to treat a life-threatening
illness.
The Telegraph
newspaper said Thomas and Nathaniel Spence-Hamblin suffered from a condition
called twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, which meant blood vessels in
their shared placenta were attached to each other.
If left untreated,
one baby would have received too much blood while the other would not have
had enough.
The surgery
was very risky, with at least one fetus failing to survive in most cases,
the newspaper said.
