... occurred as a complication of the amnioreduction procedure for twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS). At 33 weeks of gestation, 4 days after the amnioreduction, the recipient developed severe anemia while the donor developed severe polycythemia. Postnatal placental examination revealed several...

...Jeanine M.M. van Klink; Hendrik M. Koopman; Erik W. van Zwet; Dick Oepkes; Frans J. Walther; Enrico Lopriore Objective: To estimate the odds of severe cerebral injury and long-term neurodevelopmental impairment in monochorionic twins treated with amnioreduction versus laser surgery for twin-twin...

... chorioangioma that was treated in a stepwise fashion with amnioreduction to ameliorate maternal discomfort, followed by fetoscopic laser ablation of the feeding vessels after rapid evolution of heart failure. Although amnioreduction was helpful in improving maternal symptoms, we suspect that the drop...

...Sigrid Von Eckardstein; Tatjana Reihs; Gerd Crombach We present an unusual case of TRAP sequence (twin reversed arterial perfusion) with persistent polyhydramnios despite spontaneous thrombosis of the vena umbilicalis of the acardius. Serial amnioreduction was performed owing to considerable...

...A. Fichera; C. Ambrosi; F. Taddei; R. Gasparotti; T. Frusca We report a case of monochorionic twin pregnancy complicated by twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) diagnosed in the late second trimester and treated with two amnioreductions. Three days after the first amniodrainage, the recipient twin...

... suggested this outcome to be more severe in cases treated by amnioreduction. In this paper we present a hypothesis that radical amnioreduction performed after 24 weeks of gestation might cause a shift of blood from the fetus into the placenta. This could explain some of the severe neurological outcomes...

...: A retrospective analysis of 19 amnioreduction procedures performed in our unit. Multiple regression analysis was used to assess the effect of gestational age and pre-procedure AFI on the change in AFI (ΔAFI) after adjusting for the volume removed. Results: As expected, a significant linear relationship was found...

... to advances in neonatal care rather than the advent of amnioreduction, the current study evaluated whether increases in survival of preterm TTTS twins were greater than increases in survival of preterm singletons from studies before 1986 compared to studies after 1986. Methods: Medline literature search...