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Surveillance of Triplets with Umbilical Artery Velocimetry Waveforms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

N.M. Rafla
N.M. Rafla*
Affiliation:
Liverpool Maternity Hospital, UK
*
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland

Abstract

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Doppler arterial velocimetry waveforms was used as a method of antenatal surveillance for triplets. Six sets of triplet pregnancies were studied. Each fetus was identified by real-time-ultrasound scanning and the peak systolic/end diastolic (S/D) ratio was calculated. In one set of triplets two fetuses showed absent end diastolic flow. Both subsequently suffered from necrotising enterocolitis and had major bowel resection. The five other sets of triplets maintained a normal S/D ratio. Three had a normal outcome and two delivered prematurely.

Keywords

Triplet pregnanciesDoppler ultrasoundSurveillance of tripletsNecrotising enterocolitis
Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 38 , Issue 3-4 , October 1989 , pp. 301 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1989

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