A British neurosurgeon has successfully separated two Brazilian twins whose brains have been 'fused' together since birth. Bernardo and Arthur Lima spent more than 27 hours under the knife in Rio de Janeiro as paediatric surgeon Noor ul Owase Jeelani battled to separate the pair.
Jeelani, who works at Great Ormond Street Hospital, completed seven operations on the three-year-olds with the final operation taking more than 27 hours alone to complete . Almost 100 medical staff were involved in the groundbreaking medical procedure.
Surgeons and experts had spent months trialling techniques using virtual reality projections to help make one of the most complex separation processes ever completed possible. Jeelani's charity, which he founded in 2018, provided funding for the life saving surgery.
