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VR助头颅相连双胞胎成功分离


VR technology was used by doctors in Brazil and Britain who were involved in the operation involving the joined twins. The twin boys are named Arthur and Bernardo. The two were joined at the head and shared some brain tissue. Doctors in Brazil had attempted to separate the boys in the past, but they were unsuccessful. Then the hospital that cared for the twins for the past two-and-a-half years decided to contact a British charity that has financed and provided medical teams to support similar separations.

The charity is called Gemini Untwined. Its creator is Noor ul Owase Jeelani. He is a surgeon at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Jeelani specializes in separating joined twins, especially those linked at the head. Gemini Untwined has helped carry out several successful surgeries of child twins since it was established in 2018. But Jeelani said the separation of Arthur and Bernardo was the most difficult operation yet. He explained in a statement that this is because the boys shared important veins in the brain. At four years old, the twins were also the oldest with connected brain tissue to try separation surgery, Jeelani added.

The process to separate the twins was long and intense. Jeelani said a total of seven surgeries, involving more than 100 medical workers, were required. The surgeries were completely successful. Jeelani added a major reason for the successful separation was the VR training the medical teams from Britain and Brazil received in the months leading up to the real-life operations.

The teams used brain scans of the boys to create a digital map of their shared heads and brain tissue. Using this data, doctors performed several trial operations with the use of VR equipment. The simulated surgeries permitted the teams to try out different methods that were used in the actual operations.

VR technology is currently used in a number of ways in the medical field, including past separation surgeries involving twins. But Jeelani said it was the first time the technology has been used for this purpose in Brazil. “In some ways these operations are considered the hardest of our time,” Jeelani added. “And to do them in virtual reality was just really man-on-Mars stuff.” 

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