Dr. James Goodrich operated on Anias and Jadon McDonald when they were just 13 months old.
According to the Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx,"this was a first time the team used virtual planning and 3D printing technologies to map their way through the boys' attached brains in a series of complex, high-risk surgeries that resulted in complete separation."This was the 59th craniopagus surgery — defined as operations that separate people joined at the cranium — to have been performed in the world since 1952.
Goodrich had consulted on dozens of cases of craniopagus twins around the world, and the McDonald boys were the seventh set he successfully separated. "This was unexpectedly one of the hardest cases I have ever worked on," Goodrich said in a statement following the McDonald surgery."We knew they shared an area of fused brain, but we did not know how complicated it would be until we looked inside. I am relieved that the procedure was successful. These are strong little boys and the team I work with at Montefiore is quite simply the best in the world.”"My heart is broken," Nicole McDonald.
The Montefiore Hospital, where Goodrich worked for more than 30 years, called him a"humble and truly caring man" who"did not crave the limelight and was beloved by his colleagues and staff," noting that every year he baked holiday cookies and delivered them to the nurses at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore.
"Jim was in many ways the heart and soul of our department - a master surgeon, a world-class educator, and a beloved colleague for all," Dr. Emad Eskandar, chair of the department of neurosurgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center said."His sudden loss is heart-breaking and his memory will always remain foremost in our thoughts."
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