DALLAS -
the twins have had a remarkably stable course said Dr. James Thomas, chief of critical care at Children's Medical Center Dallas. They have really thrown us no surprises in the process.
As for the possibility of brain damage, brain scans yesterday found no bleeding and little brain swelling.
The neurosurgery team is quite pleased with what they see Thomas said.
The boys, who had shared an intricate web of blood vessels but had separate brains, were in adjacent rooms and remained in critical but stable condition yesterday. They were in drug-induced comas to minimize the risk of brain swelling. Both were on mechanical ventilators.
The longer that you go without the appearance of complications
that's always taken as a positive sign
Thomas said.
The boys' father, Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim, fainted when told his sons had been separated.
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Muhamed Ibrahim, the grandfather of the Egyptian conjoined twins Ahmed and Mohamed Ibrahim, kisses the twins' sister Fawzya Ibrahim, 7-years-old, yesterday, in the twins' southern Egyptian hometown of el-Homr. Ibrahim said he has been worrying and praying
