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<jats:list-item>If one twin dies during pregnancy, its placental part degenerates as it is no longer perfused.</jats:list-item>
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<jats:list-item>In monochorionic twin pregnancies, the surviving twin may recruit the placental share of its demised co‐twin through a large arterio‐arterial and veno‐venous anastomosis.</jats:list-item>
Disciplines :
Reproductive medicine (gynecology, andrology, obstetrics)
Author, co-author :
Deneckere, Sanne ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Couck, Isabel ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Devlieger, Roland ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
de Catte, Luc ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Deprest, Jan ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Institute for Women's Health, University College London Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Chantraine, Frédéric ; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Liège - CHU > > Service de gynécologie-obstétrique (CHR)
Lewi, Liesbeth ; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium ; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Language :
English
Title :
Placental vascular recruitment after single intrauterine demise: A newly diagnosed phenomenon unique to monochorionic pregnancies.
Publication date :
April 2019
Journal title :
Prenatal Diagnosis
ISSN :
0197-3851
eISSN :
1097-0223
Publisher :
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex, England
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