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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Ladan_and_Laleh_BijaniLadan and Laleh Bijani - Wikipedia

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   Ladan and Laleh Bijani (Persian: لادن و لاله بیژنی; 17 January 1974 – 8 July 2003) were Iranian conjoined twin sisters. They were joined at the head and died soon after their complicated surgical separation.

   • Cause of death: Surgical complications
   • Known for: Conjoined twins

   • Alma mater: University of Tehran

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2003/07/09 › worldTwins Die Trying to Live Two Lives - The New York Times

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   Jul 9, 2003 · Ladan and Laleh Bijani, 29-year-old Iranian twins born joined at the head, die of blood loss within 90 minutes of each other, after team of surgeons at Raffles Hospital in Singapore work for 50...

4. www.wired.com › 2003 › 10Till Death Do Us Part | WIRED

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   Oct 1, 2003 · Laleh and Ladan Bijani wanted separate lives. Doctors wanted to make history. The inside story of what went wrong. PLUS: Image-Guided Surgery, Step-by-Step. For nearly 12 hours, five...

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   What happened to Laleh & Ladan Bijani?

   • After 53 hours of surgery involving 28 specialists and 100 assistants, the 29-year-old Iranian twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani passed away as a result of major blood loss. The unprecedented high-risk surgery was undertaken by a team of international experts at Singapore’s Raffles Hospital.

   Conjoined adult twins die in first operation of its kind

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   Will separating twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani start?

   • Only now would the real work of separating conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani start. For a few days this summer, the drama unfolding in Operating Theater 11 at Singapore's Raffles Hospital gripped the world. In the lobby six floors below, more than 60 journalists had transformed the 29-year-old Iranian women into celebrities.

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   Why did Laleh and Ladan Bijani want to be separated?

   • Laleh and Ladan Bijani wanted to be separated from the moment they took their first breaths. When one infant tried to shift position, she would futilely struggle against the weight of her sister, who was attached to her head just above the ear.

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   How did Ladan Bijani die?

   • The separation stage of the surgery was completed at 13:30 SST, but there was significant blood loss during the blood vessel repairing process, and Ladan Bijani died at around 14:30 on the operating table; her sister Laleh Bijani died 90 minutes later.

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6. www.newscientist.com › article › dn3915-conjoinedConjoined adult twins die in first operation of its kind

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   Jul 8, 2003 · After 53 hours of surgery involving 28 specialists and 100 assistants, the 29-year-old Iranian twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani passed away as a result of major blood loss. The unprecedented...

7. www.nlb.gov.sg › main › article-detailWorld's first separation of adult Siamese twins in Singapore

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   Apr 11, 2024 · Iranian twin sisters, Laleh and Ladan Bijani, were the world’s first adult Siamese twins to undergo surgical separation. The 52-hour marathon operation began on 6 July 2003 at Raffles Hospital in Singapore.

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9. www.nytimes.com › 2003/07/15 › science2 Women, 2 Deaths and an Ethical Quandary - The New York Times

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   Jul 15, 2003 · Deaths of 29-year-old conjoined twin sisters Ladan and Laleh Bijani after 50 hours of elective surgery in Raffles Hospital (Singapore) to try and separate them has raised ethical debate over ...

10. www.theguardian.com › world › 2003Separate at last, the twins who died for a dream

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    Jul 13, 2003 · Twins Laden and Laleh Bijani were buried side by side in different graves yesterday. Thousands of mourners lined nearby hillsides as the sisters, who died as doctors attempted to...