Open AccessMaking Decisions When No Good Choices Exist: Delivery of the Survivor after Intrauterine Death of the Co-Twin in Monochorionic Twin Pregnancies
Author(s) -
Mark I. Evans,
Tze Kin Lau
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
fetal diagnosis and therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1421-9964
pISSN - 1015-3837
DOI - 10.1159/000320783
Subject(s) - medicine , monochorionic twins , intensive care medicine , pregnancy , obstetrics , in utero , gestation , fetus , genetics , biology
Infertility therapies have markedly increased the incidence of multiple pregnancies and concomitantly monozygotic twinning. In utero death of one monozygotic twin predisposes the survivor to death and serious morbidity from hemodynamic collapse, thromboplastins, or microemboli. The optimal management of such cases, however, is unclear.
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