Conjoined twins are a type of monozygotic twins. That is, they originate as a single zygote that splits into two. (A zygote is a fertilized egg.) They may share skin and tissue, or they may develop with shared organs and limbs.

CONJOINED twins who have never looked each other in the eye have been given a
glimmer of hope they may one day be separated.

Doctors tried and failed to separate sisters Tatiana and Anastasia Dogaru, who
are joined at the head, in a gruelling ten-hour op in 2007, at the age of
three.

Now four years later signs suggest the seven-year-old sisters — known as Tati
and Ana — are reaching a point where a separation might be possible.

Their family have been told the girls’ blood pressure is finally stable enough
again to reattempt the procedure.

In a scientific mystery, Ana’s blood pressure has been low, while Tati’s was
high.

Now a team of specialists in Chicago are looking at new ways of performing the
miracle.

With no advances in techniques to separate them safely, the family’s greatest
hope is that someone will make a breakthrough, which will ensure they can
survive the op. Dream pinball 3d wii.

But the family know the longer it takes the more complicated a separation will
become as the girls become more fused.

And with conjoined twins rarely living past the age of 11, their parents have
been left with an agonising life or death decision — to go ahead
with the risky op or to hope that the girls will live until a way to safely
separate them is found.

Mum Claudia, a nurse, from Chicago, says they will wait.

The 35-year-old said: “Since the girls were born we’ve dreamed of giving them
lives apart.

“But we can only do it if doctors find a way that will give them a reasonable
chance of surviving the op.

“We have a new glimmer of hope but still need someone to come to us with a
proposal we can accept.

“There’s a level of risk with any surgery to anyone and we accept that. But we
need survival odds like that to go forward.

“Remaining together, we just don’t know how long they have. Many don’t make it
past 11.”

Dad Alin, 36, said: “It’s agonising.

“They become more fused together and it makes things more and more difficult.”

The priest added: “The separation is a double-edged sword. It would change
their lives, but could also end them.

“Our girls are so special. We want them to have long and happy lives. We are
in a race against the clock and it’s unbearable.”

Since the failed attempt in August 2007 by physicians at Rainbow Babies &
Children’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, the parents have battled to give
their little girls the best lives possible.

During Claudia’s pregnancy in 2003, doctors at the Children’s Medical Centre
in Dallas, Texas, successfully separated two other craniopagus (joined at
the head) twins.

Egyptian two-year-olds Mohamed and Ahmed Ibrahim were flown to the US and
separated in a 34-hour operation.

Like Ana and Tati, they did not share a brain, but the surgery was complicated
by shared blood vessels.

Alin said: “We saw last month that two other craniopagus twins in London were
separated too.

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“Seeing twins like Tati and Ana separated gave us hope.

“Our little girls are so special, have a huge love of life and deserve to be
here for as long as possible.”

The talented girls have perfect mental health – finishing top of their class
in school last year.

Pictures show how they love swimming, dressing up in pretty outfits and
playing in their favourite toy car.

But their family face huge challenges because of their condition.

Alin said: “Sometimes other children won’t play with them because they can’t
keep up with games like tag.

“It’s difficult for kids to understand things and to be sensitive sometimes.

“It can be very upsetting. But at times like that we have to come together as
a family and suggest another game we can all play together.

“There are other things they can’t do that they’d love, like trampolining.

“But it’s too dangerous so we have to find alternatives and remind them of
things they can do.”

Being joined at the top of Tati’s head and the back of Ana’s means Tati and
Ana have incredibly never looked each other in the eye.

To see each other’s faces they need a combination of mirrors or photos.

Claudia said: “Even though they’ve been together all their lives they have
very different personalities.

“Tati’s favourite colour is blue and Ana’s pink.

“Ana finds it easier to move so it has made her more physical. She’s more of a
doer while Tati’s the thinker.

“It really surprised us. Identical twins are often similar and like to wear
the same things, but not ours.

“They never want to dress alike. They just have different tastes.”

Both parents, who also have a son, Theodor, one, and daughter Maria, 11,
believe the twins’ differences are efforts to show individuality.

Claudia said: “They want to show they’re different.

“The idea of separation scares them a little. It’s a fear of the unknown
because all they’ve ever known is life together.

“But we know that a safe separation is their only chance at becoming adults.

“They are so scared of hospitals after being so many times, but it’s something
we must do.

“If someone can find a way we accept, we’ll do it. But we need reasonable
odds.

“We always say we can decide for them to live, but we cannot decide for them
to die.”