Conjoined twins separated in China

Doctors in Shanghai have successfully separated 10-month-old conjoined twin girls, though their condition remained precarious due to heart and other problems, a Chinese hospital official said today.

The girls, Hu Jingxuan and Chen Jingni, shared a liver, spleen, gall bladder and digestive tract before the surgery, which lasted 13 hours, said an official in the administrative office of Fudan University Children’s Hospital, where the surgery took place.