In Honduras, Siamese twins were born, fused in the chest and abdomen and who had a common heart and liver. The girls were named Maria José and Maria Fernandez.
The mother of two girls, 27-year-old Jennifer Pamela Martinez, was expecting the birth of twins, but the conjoined twins were a complete shock for her, she had never even heard of such an anomaly before.
Now the babies, who are facing each other, are at the University of Escuela hospital under an artificial respiration apparatus, but surgeons have already made a statement that the children cannot be separated without the death of one of the twins, since they have only one heart for two. It was another blow for the mother.
Jennifer has two older children and says that she loves all her children and will look for a way out of this stalemate. If the twins are not separated, they will have increased breathing and circulatory problems and the woman may lose both of them one day.
Siamese twins with different types of fusion are born about one in every 200,000 live births in the world, and only about 35 percent of them live more than a day.
If the twins are so viable that they live for several days or more, nowadays they try to separate them as soon as possible. But the case with Maria Jose and Maria Fernandez is one of the most difficult - you can separate these twins only by sacrificing the life of one of them or trying to divide their heart, as was done with similar twins in Texas.
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Sisters Anna Grace and Hope Elizabeth Richards were born on December 29, 2016 with the same type of fusion as the girls from Honduras. They also shared a heart and a liver. In January 2018, Texas surgeons performed a successful 7-hour surgery to separate them.
The operation was very difficult and a team of 75 surgeons and their assistants worked on it. So this case can be called rather unique. A part of the liver and heart was left for each girl, having recreated the circulatory system.
