In first, twins conjoined at the head are born in Israel

Doctors said to assess chances of separating the baby girls, born some 2 months ago, as ‘very high’

By ToI Staff 10 November 2020, 2:02 pm Edit

An image of onjoined twins born in Israel, summer 2020. (Courtesy)

A pair of twins conjoined at the head has been born in Israel for the first time, a report said Monday.

The baby girls were born about two months ago, connected at the head but with two separate brains, according to Channel 13.

Doctors have reportedly informed the family that the chances of separating the twins are “very high.”

There have been two known pairs of conjoined twins in Israel, one born in 1995 and the other in 2005. However, both those pairs had been conjoined at the abdomen.

Formerly conjoined twins, Clarence, left, and Carl Aguirre, look at each other as they are visited in their hospital room in New York, August 10, 2004, by their mother Arlene Aguirre and the two doctors who surgically separated the twins, Dr. James Goodrich and Dr. David Staffenberg. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

James Goodrich, a prominent American neurosurgeon who separated many conjoined twins during his career, died in April of COVID-19.