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it will most likely be soon. but dr. salyer knows that to accomplish this he needs to reach out and find an elite group of pediatric neurosurgeons. he does find them. but the question is can they help? initially it was quite daunting. it was very difficult to figure out the exact anatomy. dr. dale swift is one of the team that would attempt to come up with a surgical plan for ahmed and mohamed. swift and his colleagues conduct ct scans, mris, arteriograms, and using the data they commission replica models of the twins heads. here in life size is the exact configuration not just of the boys heads but of the increasingly complex web of blood vessels inside. it will show us the arteries or the veins or the scalp or the bone or dura. you actually took them home?
possibility that one or both of the twins might not survive surgery, the thought is simply too much for wafa, who looks after the smaller, more vulnerable twin, mohamed. yeah. she says she feels like a mother whose baby is about to be taken away from her. translator: this is an impossible decision for us. these boys are like our sons. so which one should we sacrifice for the other? they wish, they tell us, that the decision could be put off for at least a year, time perhaps to find another solution for their babies or, better still, says wafa, let the boys grow up and decide for themselves what they want. but all the doctors know that if they re going to perform surgery it will most likely be soon. but dr. salyer knows that to accomplish this he needs to reach out and find an elite group of pediatric neurosurgeons. he does find them. but the question is can they help?