US doctors 're-evaluating' conjoined twin surgery

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US medical team is re-evaluating its attempt to separate three-year-old girls who are joined at the head, after halting a preliminary operation last week due to brain swelling, a hospital spokeswoman said Tuesday.

The twins, Anastasia and Tatiana Dogaru, "are doing very well" and have left the hospital to stay with their Romanian-born parents in a nearby Cleveland suburb, said Janice Guhl of Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio.

"We are going to re-evaluate their case," Guhl said, declining to say how long it might be until doctors decide whether or not to move forward.

"There is such a large medical team involved, placing a timeframe on it is difficult," she said.

Guhl said physicians on the 50-member...