Twin Siamese girls who are joined at the chest and share the same heart 'will have to remain together', doctors have said. The conjoined twins, Anais and Amanda Cruz, from Chile, were born five months ago, and it was unclear whether an operation could be carried out to separate them.
Now, surgeon Dr Humberto Caballero, who is caring for the girls, said: 'The twins were sent to have tests done now that they are five-months-old.
'The conclusion is that the girls hearts are joined, and as a result the babies will have to remain together.'
Experts said the twins were born with a Cyanotic heart, a condition which results in low levels of oxygen in the blood, and usually leads to a shorter life span in children.
Dr Caballero added: 'The heart condition means that it's impossible to separate them and it would also be out of the question to remove one so that the other might live and develop normally.'
Amanda and Anais are having tests done at the Catholic University of Santiago, Chile, but will shortly return to Vallenar, in the Chilean province of Huasco, where they were born, and will remain there for the future.
Their father Waldo Cruz, 41, said that as long as the twins were alive they would care for them and give them as much love as possible.
He said: 'As long as they are here it is heaven's will, and we will care for them.'
The twins, who are joined at the chest and face each other, are known as 'thoracopagus' twins.
This is the most common type of cojoined twins: 40 per cent are in this group, according to the Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation. (Dailymail)
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