DALLAS – The conditions of conjoined twins separated last summer have steadily improved, and officials say they’ll be released this week from a Dallas hospital.
Officials at Medical City Children’s Hospital announced Monday that Owen and Emmett Ezell are expected to be discharged Wednesday. They were born in July joined at the abdomen.
The boys are no longer being fed through an IV but continue to be fed through tubes in their abdomens. And instead of being hooked to breathing machines, they now need only the assistance of a trachea tube, officials said.
The boys will move from the hospital to a rehab center.
Owen and Emmett were separated at the hospital in August after being born joined from just below the breast bone to just below the belly button. The babies shared a liver and intestines and had an approximately 3-by-5-inch area on their lower stomach that wasn’t covered by skin or muscles.