article_snippet: The conjoined twin girls born in Indonesia today were have a very rare condition which means The conjoined twin girls born in Indonesia today share a chest, abdomen and incredibly - a heart.
article_snippet: the babies fall under the most common type of conjoined twins known as 'thoracopagus' which means the babies are joined at the upper torso and have just one heart between the babies, making it 'nearly impossible' to separate the babies and save the babies.
article_snippet: Connected: The twin girls (pictured) born in Java, Indonesia have a rare condition which means The twin girls (pictured) born in Java are joined at the upper torso and share a single heart .
article_snippet: Together for life: Babies who share a heart like The twin girls (pictured) born in Java are 'nearly impossible' to separate successfully .
article_snippet: The twins born today cannot be torn apart because The twins born today share vital organs but Soetomo Hospital has reportedly performed separation surgeries on 53 conjoined twins in the past.
article_snippet: Conjoined twins occur about once in every 200,000 live births and Conjoined twins survival is 'anything but assured' according to the University of Maryland Medical Centre.
article_snippet: the University of Maryland Medical Centre claims 40 to 60 per cent of conjoined twins arrive stillborn and tragically, about 35 per cent only survive for a single day.
article_snippet: The are genetically rare and always the same sex because The develop from the same fertilised egg and share the same placenta. '
article_snippet: Twinning' occurs either when a woman releases two eggs instead of one or a woman produces an egg that divides after it has been fertilised.
article_snippet: Although there are many different types, the most common form of conjoined twins is thoracopagus which means conjoined twins are combined at the upper torso like the baby girls in Indonesia.
article_snippet: conjoined twins share a heart which - depending on how closely conjoined twins are joined - makes it 'nearly impossible to separate conjoined twins and save conjoined twins both'.
article_snippet: : Conjoined twins occur about once in every 200,000 live births and Conjoined twins survival is 'anything but assured' according to the University of Maryland Medical Centre .
highlights_snippet: Twin girls born with rare condition which means they connect at the torso .
  
highlights_snippet: Shared heart makes it 'nearly impossible' to separate they and save both .
  