Conjoined twin girls, 2, die in desperate surgical operation minutes after being separated

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Key points

• Helena was then reportedly struck by a heart attack at 11: 12 pm, and Heloísa then had one 11: 26 pm.
• Their father, Amarildo Batista da Silva, thanked the doctors and hospital staff despite the heartbreaking outcome.
• Twin 2-year-old sisters born joined at the head in Brazil died minutes after enduring a fifth grueling surgery to separate them, according to a report.
• When their conditions took a turn, according to the outlet, the adorable sisters had just been separated at the end of a 15-hour operation.
• The medical team desperately tried to resuscitate them for 25 minutes – but the girls were pronounced dead shortly after, the outlet documented.

Little Heloísa and Helena Batista da Silva – who shared brain tissue and blood vessels -suffered insufficient blood flow to their organs along with a heart attack in Ribeirão Preto Saturday, the UK Sun documented.

One of the twins rapidly developed low blood pressure while the other suffered high blood pressure.

Notably, the medical team desperately tried to resuscitate them for 25 minutes – but the girls were pronounced dead shortly after, the outlet documented.

"They had many bouts of pneumonia, they had a tracheostomy, they needed a gastrostomy for feeding, and they had episodes that also weakened their bodies, " remarked Jayme Farina Júnior, a plastic surgeon on the team.

"But at the moment of the final separation, their bodies could not withstand this instability, and then they progressed to cardiac arrest."

Meanwhile, the twins' first three surgeries involved doctors separating around 75% of their shared brain tissue and blood vessels.

During the fourth operation, doctors applied tissue expanders to rise the amount of skin needed for closing their skulls in the final separation.

In practice, the sisters had successfully completed four surgeries over the past year before the final surgery. It required more than 50 staffers at the hospital.

Both girls reportedly suffered haemodynamic instability, additionally known as insufficient blood flow to vital organs. It can lead to organ failure and death.

In practice, the girls were buried on Aug. 16 in São José dos Campos near their family home.

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