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Broadcast: Jan 14, 2003
Twins girls who were born joined at the head have gone home to Guatemala, five months after surgery to separate them. The 2)prognosis for both is good.
Wearing 3)tiaras over their bandages, the 17-month-old sisters left the children's hospital at the University of California, Los Angeles. Medical workers saw them off Monday, in a farewell one nurse called "bittersweet."
"We know that this is best for them and they need to be back in their hometown, but we've grown really attached to them and it's going to be hard for us," she said
The girls, known as the two Marias, were born fused at the skull1 with their faces 4)tilted in opposite directions. They were brought to Los Angeles with help from a charity called Healing the Children.
Doctors describe the 23-hour procedure to separate the girls as one of the most difficult in the hospital's history. On several occasions, one of the girls was near death.
An anonymous3 donor4 contributed $450,000 toward the $2 million cost of their medical care. UCLA physicians donated their services.
Dr. Henry Kawamoto, a Japanese of American says the team that cared for the twins included physicians from India, Argentina and Israel.
"That shows we can do and do together, as the twins go back to Guatemala, we're really exporting some of the best of American technology, American goodwill5, and hopefully a message that says, people of the world, we can work together to bring a lot of joy," he said.
At home, the girls will undergo physical therapy and further operations, including plastic surgery to allow them to grow full heads of hair.
Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles.
1) Guatamalan 危地马拉(拉丁美洲)
2) prognosis [prC^5nEusis]n.[医] 预后,预测
3) tiara [ti5B:rE]n. 冠状头饰
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n.头骨;颅骨 | |
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v.(使)倾侧;(使)倾斜;n.倾侧;倾斜 | |
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adj.无名的;匿名的;无特色的 | |
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n.捐献者;赠送人;(组织、器官等的)供体 | |
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n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉 | |
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