LONDON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Surgeons want 6-week-old conjoined twins to grow and gain strength before deciding whether to separate them, officials in London say.
The brothers are to spend time with their parents at their home in Ireland and return this year to Great Ormond Street Hospital, said Dr. Edward Kiely, a pediatric surgeon at the hospital.
"The surgical team here is the most experienced in Europe at assessing and, if necessary, separating conjoined twins," Kiely said in a story published Friday in The Daily Telegraph.
Doctors and the boys' family have not publicly said at what part of their bodies the twins are joined, but it is likely they have separate hearts and circulatory systems if doctors are talking about the possibility of separating them, the Telegraph reported.
The twin were eating well and gaining weight, said a statement from their parents, who asked to remain anonymous.
