Twin Pregnancies with One Fetal Demise.

Park, Joong Shin; Syn, Hee Chul

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Korean Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 1997;40(8):1630-1637.
Published online: January 1, 2001

Twin Pregnancies with One Fetal Demise.

Joong Shin Park, Hee Chul Syn

Abstract

OBJECTIVE
To evaluate the maternal complications and perinatal outcomes in twin pre-gnancies with one fetal demise PATIENTS: From January 1990 to December 1996, 20 twin pregnancies with single fetal death were observed in Seoul National University Hospital : in 6 cases(group 1) between 20 ~26 weeks and in 14 cases(group 2) after 26 weeks gestation by gestational age of fetal death ; in 7 cases of monochorionic and in 13 cases of dichorionic placentation. RESULTS: The incidence of one fetal death was 5.4% in twin pregnancy. Diagnosis-to- delivery interval of group 1 was longer than group 2(61.0 days : 8.9 days). So it was thou- ght that the gestational age of delivery in group 1 was not always earlier than in group 2. And other parameters(chorionicity, preterm delivery, cesarean section, coagulopathy, IUGR, perinatal mortality, neurologic sequelae, IVH) didn't show the statistical differences between group 1 and group 2. According to chorionicity, it seemed that the perinatal mortality rate of monochorionic group was higher than dichorionic(86% : 62%) and that cesarean section rate was higher in dichorionic group(54% : 14%). But there were no statistical significances between two gruops. All other parameters also didn't show differences statistically. CONCLUSION: We fail to demonstrate that monochorionic placentation is associated with increased risks for the survivor in twin pregnancies of single fetal demise. It may be part- ially explained due to small numbers of cases in this study.

Keywords: Twin pregnancy; One fetal demise; Chorionicity

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