Risky surgery on conjoined twins

Surgeons in China who are preparing to separate conjoined twin boys will let one keep their shared heart and give the other an artificial heart. Doctors say the risky surgery to the 3-month-old boys should go ahead because they would die without it. They also share a liver and intestines. German experts designed the artificial heart especially for infants, the Shanghai Daily reported. Dr Fan Huimin, a heart surgeon at Shanghai East Hospital, would not give a date for the operation. The boys, Lu Dongfei and Lu Dongxiang, were born on December 14 in the eastern city of Hefei in Anhui Province. According to news reports, the boys were abandoned by relatives.