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Twins and cerebral palsy
Author(s) -
Pharoah POD
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.2001.tb01620.x
Subject(s) - cerebral palsy , medicine , in utero , pediatrics , singleton , intrauterine death , fetus , pregnancy , obstetrics , physical therapy , biology , genetics
In a national follow‐up study of twin births, monozygous compared with dizygous twins were at significantly increased for both to die in utero , one to die in utero and the co‐twin to die in infancy, or both to be livebirths but both die in infancy. The prevalence of cerebral palsy among survivors of a co‐twin fetal death was 80.2 and other cerebral impairment was 107.0 per 1000. Many apparently singleton cases of cerebral palsy and impairment may be due to fetal death of a twin that has not been recognized or has been recognized but not registered.