The first mention of the birth of Siamese twinsbelong to the X century, when boys were brought back to Constantinople with their backs fused. Similar phenomena, like flashes, periodically appeared throughout the world. They have been carefully studied by world experts and today have a scientific explanation and classification. But the problem of separation of twins remains relevant. It is rarely possible to perform surgery without complications.
Siamese twins in Russia, Anya and Tanya Korkina,became the most famous modern case. Their history thundered into a sensation at the end of the last century, and the operation to separate them is considered unique, and is still remembered in world medicine.
On April 9, 1990, in one of the Chelyabinsk maternity hospitals, unique newborns were born - twins grown together in their bellies. Babies for two had one liver.
Mother (Vera Korkina) learned about this pathology onsixth month of pregnancy. It was already too late to perform an abortion, so she consciously prepared for childbirth and subsequent events. The father of the children (Vladimir Korkin) could not bear such a shock and left the family.
Vera Korkina did not abandon the children and turned to several surgeons of the city of Chelyabinsk. Only one, Professor Novokreschenov LB, agreed to take a chance and divide the Siamese twins.
Сиамские близнецы в России – Аня и Таня – это first experience of a similar operation in the USSR. After them were only the Rezakhanov sisters. Before taking a chance, Lev Borisovich Novokreschenov had long doubted and carefully prepared for the operation. It was not enough just to separate the babies, it is necessary to save both the life and the working capacity of the liver. Thus, the professor invented and protected his surgical method for the separation of Siamese twins with a single liver.
The operation was scheduled for May 17, 1990.That is, Siamese twins barely one month old. The operation lasted almost an hour and a half. During her course, the risky, individual method of the surgeon was applied: the liver of the newborn was literally “torn by hands”.
The fact is that the human liver isunique body. If you remove some of it, it can fully recover in size. This is what Professor Novokreschenov hoped for. In addition, it was impossible to waste time and wait until the girls grow up. It is not known what could be delayed.
In intensive care Anya and Tanya spent 7 days.After that, their lives went like ordinary children. Another 14 years old girls were observed in the surgeon rescuer Novokreschenov. And during this time, no serious complications have been identified.
Former Siamese twins were born and live inRussia. Anya and Tanya are adults, beautiful and, most importantly, full-fledged girls. They are always together and almost not separated. There has been an inexplicable connection between the sisters since childhood, which they have often spoken about in an interview. If one has a headache, the other feels the same.
Sisters live with their mother on the outskirts of their native Chelyabinsk in a two-room apartment. Mother works as a nurse in a military hospital. The girls received secondary technical education and also work.
Every day, every moment since childhood, and still happy and grateful, Anya and Tanya Korkina. Photos, which are full of numerous articles about girls, only confirm their cheerfulness.
The most difficult issue for physicians was andthere remains the reason for the formation of Siamese twins in the womb. Medicine can describe the very process of untimely and incomplete separation of the egg, but what is the trigger for this process is not always explained. Among the assumptions: genetic disorders, the influence of the external environment or the whim of nature.
Siamese twins in Russia - Anya and Tanya - thisquite complicated and inexplicable case. Of course, Chelyabinsk doctors tried to find out the reason. The girls and both parents were tested and tested, but no genetic failure was detected. Perhaps, external factors (stress, ecology, etc.) influenced the formation of embryos, but this remained in the distant past. Or maybe divine providence allowed a talented surgeon to perform a unique operation and once again prove that miracles exist.
