... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Gestational trophoblastic disease Twin pregnancy Hydatidiform mole Prenatal diagnosis Ultrasound Complete hydatidiform mole coexistent...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Gestational trophoblastic disease Twin pregnancy Complete hydatidiform mole Uterine rupture Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTD) encompasses a heterogeneous group of disorders arising from an abnormal...

... Cardiotocography Twin pregnancy Gynecol. Invest. 7: 243-249 (1976) The Validity of the Atropine Test G. Carlomagno, R. P ezzullo, M.C. Sabbati and G.P. M andruzzato Istituto per PInfanzia Burlo Garofolo di Trieste, and Obstetrical-Gynecological Clinic of the University of Trieste (Director: P. Spanio...

...J. Dor; J. Shalev; S. Mashiach; J. Blankstein; D.M. Serr The efficiency of elective cervical suture in preventing premature delivery thus reducing neonatal mortality was studied in a group of 50 twin pregnancies. All pregnancies occurred after induction of ovulation and twins were diagnosed early...

... report an interesting case of a macrosomic acardiac acephalic fetus weighing 4.5-fold of another variable donor fetus (approximately 6 kg) in a twin pregnancy. 30 01 1991 1 03 1991 2 3 2010 © 1991 S. Karger AG, Basel 1991 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All...

... group compared with the vaginal delivery group (p < 0.001). Our study suggests that vaginal delivery of selected twin gestations with a breech first twin should be an alternative to cesarean delivery. Twin pregnancy Breech first twin Management Cesarean section 8 04 1992 4 05 1992...

...Makio Shozu; Kouki Akimoto; Jun Tanaka; Yasuo Sonoda; Masaki Inoue; Yasuhito Michikura The first case of Meckel-GrÜber syndrome in a dizygotic twin pregnancy following in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer is reported. An ultrasound examination at 26 weeks of gestation revealed multiple...

... twins dead before or during birth (cases), in a defined region with 12 hospitals in southern Sweden between 1973 and 1989, were identified by using information stored at the Medical Birth Registry, the National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm. For each case pregnancy, two control twin pregnancies...

...Toshimitsu Koike; Hisanori Minakami; Takeshi Takayama; Shuichi Ogawa; Tomoyuki Kuwata; Ikuo Sato To assess changes in the serum uric acid level in the third trimester of twin pregnancies, a total of 152 consecutive women with twin pregnancies were examined. Serum uric acid levels were analyzed...

...Miwa Igarashi; Hidehiko Miyake; Shunji Suzuki Aim: We examined whether the Doppler waveforms of the maternal renal main arteries are altered in women with twin pregnancy compared with those in singleton pregnancy. Methods: The indices of vascular resistance and acceleration time of the maternal...

...Terhi Saisto; Vedran Stefanovic; Anne Vakkuri A 32-year-old G6P5 (hepatitis B carrier, of African origin) with a spontaneous twin pregnancy gave birth at the 37th gestational week. Four hours later she collapsed. Upon an emergency laparotomy, right liver lobe rupture and later massive liver...

...Seiji Sumigama; Atsuo Itakura; Toshimichi Yamamoto; Tetsuro Nagasaka; Eiko Yamamoto; Kazuhiko Ino; Fumitaka Kikkawa Twin pregnancy consisting of a complete hydatidiform mole (CHM) along with a live co-existing fetus is a rare entity and difficult to diagnose. A 37-year-old Japanese woman...

...Shino Shinagawa; Shunji Suzuki; Hiromitsu Chihara; Yasuo Otsubo; Toshiyuki Takeshita; Tsutomu Araki Objective: This study examined the basal metabolic rate in patients with twin pregnancies and compared the results with those of singleton pregnancies and non-pregnant women. Methods: In 15 non...

... to the ultrasound beam. Methods: This was a prospective, observational cohort study of twin-pregnancy ultrasound examinations during the second and third trimesters with chorionicity confirmed by a pathologist. Ultrasound measurements of the dividing membrane thickness were recorded in 44 twin pregnancies using...

...Shunji Suzuki; Toyohiko Kuwajima; Yoshio Yoneyama; Rintaro Sawa; Tsutomu Araki The percentage of T-helper (Th)1, Th2 cells and the Th1:Th2 cell ratios in peripheral blood from 14 normal nonpregnant women, 23 normal pregnant women and 9 patients with twin pregnancies without preeclampsia at 28–32...

... for the second twin were considered potentially avoidable. Conclusion: In normal twin pregnancies with vertex/nonvertex presentation, the favorable fetal outcome and also the maternal risks associated with cesarean section support vaginal delivery as the recommended delivery route. Extraction or version...

...Shunji Suzuki; Yasuo Otsubo; Rintaro Sawa; Yoshio Yoneyama; Tsutomu Araki Objective: The appropriate date of delivery in twin pregnancies is supposed to be earlier than that in singleton pregnancy. The aim of this study was to compare two strategies for managing twin pregnancies (i.e., immediate...

... twin pregnancies (3 monochorionic and 10 dichorionic pairs) and one triplet pregnancy (trichorionic triplet) from 9 to 36 weeks of gestation were studied with a specially developed abdominal three-dimensional transducer (3.5 MHz). This imaging system can provide conventional two-dimensional...

...Qian Chen; Akio Izumi; Hisanori Minakami; Ikuo Sato We prospectively studied 99 women with uncomplicated singleton pregnancies and 24 women with uncomplicated twin pregnancies to examine the effect of the location of the placenta on the pulsatility index (PI) in the uterine arteries in twin...