Separation of conjoined twins is not a new thing is modern world where we have effective techniques to do the job, but Swiss surgeons registered their names in record book by successfully separating youngest ever conjoined twins.

Last month, a team of five doctors separated eight-day-old tiny identical twin sisters who were conjoined from liver and chest. The team, assisted by six anaesthesiologists and two nurses, took about five years in the operation theatre to perform the successful surgery, as per a report of the Le Matin Dimanche.

The twins, Maya and Lydia, took birth in December along with third triplet sister Kamill at Bern hospital. The two tiny twins fused at the chest and liver. As per the hospital’s doctors, both the babies were stable, which allowed them to consider a surgery. The surgery was planned to perform a few months after their birth because doctors wanted the conjoined twins to settle after birth.

But a few days after the babies’ condition deteriorated. One of them was suffering from hypertension, while the other had the opposite condition, the hospital reported. The situation was serious, so the doctors decided to take risk and attempt the surgery on young babies.

Separating the infants’ liver meant putting them under massive pressure, said Barbara Wildhaber of the Geneva University Hospital and a member of the team which performed the surgery. She also said that they were set to accept that the babies will die.

But they tasted success. “It was magnificent! I will remember it my entire career”, Barbara added. As per repots, the twins, Maya and Lydia, have been recovering well. Both of them have put on weight and have begun breast feeding.

The twins are among the 200 separated conjoined twins, the report stated.