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A Study on Prognosis of Surviving Cotwin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

K. Yoshida  and
K. Matayoshi
K. Yoshida*
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokyo Medical College, Japan
K. Matayoshi
Affiliation:
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokyo Medical College, Japan
*
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tokyo Medical College, 6-7-1 Nishi-shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160, Japan

Abstract

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It has been suggested that the surviving cotwin and the mother are seriously affected when intrautrine fetal death of one monozygotic twin occurs. Several authors have reported brain damage in the surviving twin coexisting in utero with dead monozygotic cotwin. Most of such instances are monochorionic and show vascular communication between paired twins in the placenta. In a total of 133 pairs of monochorionic twins, death of one twin during pregnancy occurred in 33 cases (24.8%). Of 33 surviving twins, 8 babies suffered from porencephaly, cerebral palsy and other abnormalities. More unfavorable prognosis was recognized when a cotwin died in the latter half of pregnancy, while when a monozygotic cotwin died in the early stage of pregnancy, the surviving twin uneventfully grew to term in most cases.

Keywords

Intrauterine fetal deathBrain damageVascular communicationPorencephalyTwin transfusion syndromeCord complications
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 39 , Issue 3 , July 1990 , pp. 383 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1990

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