Nick Miles
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3,281 appearances
60 recordings
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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Originally from Nigeria, twin girls Mercy and Goodness were born conjoined by the head, a rare and life-threatening condition.
For the first year and a half of their lives, they'd never seen each other face to face.
But that all changed when they were separated last January with the help of cutting-edge AI.
Led by paediatric neurosurgeon Professor Owais Jalani from Great Ormond Street Hospital, I spent time with him as he prepared for the final stage of the operation.
Mercy and goodness is what we classify as a total vertical craniopagus, which essentially means they are longitudinal.
The head's a joint, top on, and their feet are away from each other.
So it's quite a complex way of being conjoint.
So what you then do is you do the separation of the brain and the blood vessels, then you try and expand the skin, and once you feel you have enough expansion, then you do the separation.
So where does the AI come in?
The technology that we have now, the augmented reality, mixed reality technology, it really takes it to the next level where you don't have to do a lot of that 3D processing in your head.
It is done for you and you can have those 3D images either suspended in space or superimposed onto the children that you're operating.
It just makes your understanding of the whole anatomy and the problem so much more accurate.
When you're doing the separation of conjoint twins at certain points you have their entire brain surface exposed on the surgical table and the potential for causing injury to the brain is there and we've had that with our previous cases.
The optimal way of doing the surgery is you do the separation whilst causing no trauma to the brains and this technique essentially allows us to do that.
From this start we've called goodness twin one and mercy twin two, correct?
Correct.
Months of planning, every move choreographed.
And then, at last, it happens.
I'm so, so happy.
Six months on, and the girls are on a long road to recovery.
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