World News Tonight (ABC) - 1993-08-21
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[0:00] World News, Saturday
[0:02] From Washington, here's Tom Jarrell.
[0:05] Good evening. The surviving Siamese twin
[0:07] in Philadelphia tonight continues to
[0:08] cling to life and is showing signs of
[0:10] improvement. The 7-week-old baby girl is
[0:12] said to be resting comfortably and her
[0:14] parents are thankful for the outcome of
[0:16] the complicated surgery. More now from
[0:19] ABC's Beth Nissen.
[0:21] >> The news was good. Little Angela
[0:24] Lakeberg had survived the night, was
[0:26] surviving the odds.
[0:27] >> Angela's in critical condition, but she
[0:29] is stable. She's moving. She's having
[0:32] urine output. She has a stable cardiac
[0:35] rhythm.
[0:36] >> Her parents were at Angela's cribside
[0:38] this morning.
[0:39] >> The doctor gave us this little chance,
[0:41] this less than 1% chance, and here we
[0:43] are with this little baby,
[0:45] you know, with her eyes open.
[0:50] >> But for the first time in her short
[0:51] life, Angela will not see the face of
[0:53] her twin sister Amy a few inches from
[0:55] her own. The two baby girls were born 7
[0:58] weeks ago joined at the midsection and
[1:00] chest. They shared a liver and only one
[1:03] malformed heart.
[1:05] In a 5 and 1/2 hour operation yesterday,
[1:07] surgeons at Children's Hospital of
[1:09] Pennsylvania separated Angela and Amy
[1:11] and repaired the heart for Angela. As
[1:14] doctors had known, there was not enough
[1:16] heart tissue left for Amy. She died on
[1:18] the operating table.
[1:21] The doctors who operated on the twins
[1:23] were not available for comment today,
[1:25] but surgeons who have done similar
[1:27] operations called yesterday's procedure
[1:29] extraordinary. Dr. W. Hardy Hendren has
[1:32] operated on nine sets of conjoined
[1:34] twins.