BALTIMORE (AP) — A little girl born with her head fused to that of her twin sister died Thursday, shortly after surgeons separated them.
The surviving 1-year-old twin, Lea Block, lay in critical but stable condition.
Lea and her sister, Tabea, from Lemgo, Germany, were separated shortly after midnight, after more than 18 hours of surgery.
Doctors were three-quarters of the way through the surgery when "it became clear we didn't have very much time and we had to go into emergency mode to separate them," the lead surgeon, Dr. Ben Carson, said Thursday at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.
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The surgeons performed "an exhaustive resuscitative effort," to no avail, hospital spokeswoman Staci Vernick Goldberg said.