Doctors separate twins with joined hearts

Thai doctors today announced they had performed an operation separating a pair of conjoined female infants, claiming it was the first successful operation of its sort in the world.

The girls, Panwad Tiyenjai and Pantawan Tiyenjai, were so-called thoracopagus twins – with their bodies joined from chest to abdomen – and had connected hearts and livers, said an announcement from Bangkok’s Siriraj Hospital.