Angelica and Angelina Sabuco, the two-year-old twin girls born connected at the chest and abdomen, successfully underwent a 10-hour separation surgery on Tuesday at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.
"We are very pleased," said one of the surgeons, Dr. Gary Hartman, according to the hospital. "It could not have gone better."
"I thank God for everything; words cannot express how the family feels for the successful separation of our twins, Angelica and Angelina," said the girls' mother, Ginady Sabuco.
Earlier in the day, another surgeon, Dr. Matias Bruzoni, said "the liver was the toughest part." The girls shared the liver, diaphragms, breast bones and the muscles of the chest and abdominals walls.
Doctors said the fact the girls' hearts are separate apart from the tips made the operation safer and easier.
Reconstructing the girls' chest and abdominal walls went smoother than expected, and the only physical reminder of their ordeal will be a long scar from the chest to the belly button.
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