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Pathomorphologic Changes of the Cardiovascular System in Twins

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

I. Rose*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatric Pathology, Institute of Pathology of the Medical Academy, Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic
*
Institut für Pathologie, Medizinische Akademie, Leipziger Strasse 44, 301 Magdeburg, German Democratic Republic

Abstract

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The author reports on primary diseases and on secondary reactions of adaptation in fetal hearts of twins. Cases of fibroelastosis endocardica, cases of hypertrophy of the heart, and the circulatory reactions following feto-fetal transfusion in twins, are discussed.

Using histochemical methods, several enzymes of the myocardium in deceased twins have been investigated.

Type
1. Multiple Pregnancy as a High-Risk Pregnancy
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1972