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Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome at 11 weeks of gestation.

Sueters M, Middeldorp JM, Oepkes D, Lopriore E, Vandenbussche FP

Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

Second-trimester twin-to-twin transfusion is well known, but first-trimester cases rarely have been described. We present the case of a monochorionic twin at 11+0 weeks of gestation with single increased nuchal translucency and normal karyotypes. At 12+5 weeks of gestation, double intrauterine death was diagnosed, followed by delivery of a strikingly red and white fetus.

Published 9 September 2005 in Am J Obstet Gynecol, 193(3): 887-8.
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