VietNamNet Bridge – The conjoined twins, born last Tuesday in Soc Trang Province, had CT scans done of all their blood vessels at a HCM City medical centre on Monday.

Soc Trang's woman delivers conjoined twins

The conjoined twins are given medical care at HCM City's Paediatric Hospital 1. — File Photo
The tests, done to determine what internal organs they have, found that there were two attached hearts, two spinal columns, two brains, two kidneys, and two stomachs but only one liver which, however, is in good condition.

They were born with two heads and two legs.

Doctors said this was an extremely rare case.

One of them might have to be sacrificed if surgery was done since they had only one liver, urinary tract, and female sex organ, Dr. Dao Trung Hieu, deputy head of the HCM City-based Paediatric Hospital 1, said.

But a thorough and drawn-out examination is required before doctors make any decision to operate.

Before the babies were born, their mother Lam Thi My Dan of the province's Chau Thanh District was unaware of the problem that was to unfold.

Ultrasound tests during her pregnancy had shown two separate heartbeats.

The babies were taken to Paediatric Hospital 1 the day after birth for evaluation.

Hieu added that if both were healthy and it was considered difficult to perform a surgery now, the conjoined twins would grow up in their current state.

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