Twin boys saved by first Irish surgery in womb

IDENTICAL twin baby boys Ryan and Dylan Kershaw are alive today thanks to doctors who performed Ireland’s first-ever surgery within the womb.

The surgery was to correct a complication that would have almost certainly killed them if left untreated.

About one-third of all twin pregnancies are identical and up to one quarter of them can develop twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.

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