1. Special forms in twin pregnancy - ACARDIAC TWIN/ Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence.
- Author
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F. A., Anca, A., Negru, A. E., Mihart, C., Grigoriu, R. E., Bohiltea, and A., Serban
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MULTIPLE pregnancy ,PREGNANCY complications ,HIGH-risk pregnancy ,ARTERIAL puncture ,PRENATAL care - Abstract
Twin pregnancy generally represents a high-risk pregnancy, but monozygous twin pregnancy is a real challenge for the obstetrician due to the serious complications that may occur during its evolution. A very rare, severe complication of monozygous twin pregnancy, which we recently dealt with in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of the University Emergency Hospital Bucharest, was a monochorionic monoamniotic twin pregnancy with acardiac twin (TRAP). One of the fetuses (acardiac twin) presented a rudimentary unfunctional heart or even no heart at all, underdeveloped inferior part of the body and head, being transfused by the other fetus with a normal heart (pumping twin) by one superficial arterio-arterial anastomosis through which blood pumped backwards. The understanding of these cases is mandatory in order to offer maximum survival and heath chances to the viable fetus. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2015