from Complications of Monochorionic Multiple Pregnancy: Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 October 2019
Monochorionic twin placentation occurs in 20% of spontaneous twin pregnancies and almost 5% of those are obtained by medically assisted reproduction [1]. Monochorionic twin fetuses have the unique characteristic of living upon one single placenta and therefore share some cotyledons through vascular anastomoses running on the chorionic plate. This situation can lead to specific complications, including twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) [2, 3], twin-anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS) [4, 5], and selective intrauterine growth restriction (sIUGR) [6]. These complications are likely to explain most of the 6- to 12-fold increase in perinatal mortality in monochorionic compared with dichorionic twins [7–10].
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