The normal fetus of an acardiac twin pregnancy: perinatal management based on echocardiographic and sonographic evaluation.
Prenat Diagn
; 11(4): 235-44, 1991 Apr.
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ABSTRACT
Experience with three prenatally diagnosed pregnancies complicated by an acardiac twin reveals that ultrasonography and echocardiography are helpful in detecting early signs of in-utero congestive heart failure in the normal twin. The use of Doppler blood flow analysis to determine direction of blood flow, post-mortem placental and fetal angiography, and umbilical cord blood gas determination provided proof that retrograde arterial perfusion occurs in the acardiac fetus. In a fourth pregnancy, an experimental approach to occlude the acardiac twin's umbilical cord was attempted, but was unsuccessful.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Gêmeos Monozigóticos
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Cardiopatias Congênitas
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Prenat Diagn
Ano de publicação:
1991
Tipo de documento:
Article