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Intrafetal Laser Coagulation for Trap Sequence in a Complicated Dichorionic Triamniotic Triplet Pregnancy Case Report and Review of the Literature Cover

Intrafetal Laser Coagulation for Trap Sequence in a Complicated Dichorionic Triamniotic Triplet Pregnancy Case Report and Review of the Literature

Open Access
|Jun 2018

Abstract

A rare case is reported of twin-reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence in a triplet pregnancy, fetal intervention in the first trimester and pregnancy outcome. We report a case of TRAP sequence complication in dichorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy, with a normally developing fetus and an acardiac fetus connected via arterio-arterial anastomoses in a monochorionic diamniotic twin pair and a separate fetus. TRAP sequence was diagnosed at 13 weeks in triplet pregnancy after in vitro fertilization (IVF) and embryo transfer of two blastocysts. Color Doppler assessment showed persistent arterial flow in the acardiac twin. Intrafetal laser coagulation was carried out at the time of the diagnosis, and the pregnancy outcome was two survivals at 36.4 weeks of gestation.

Language: English
Page range: 146 - 150
Submitted on: Nov 29, 2017
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Accepted on: Feb 27, 2018
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Published on: Jun 30, 2018
Published by: Sciendo
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2018 Petya P. Chaveeva, Slavcho T. Tomov, Atanas D. Shterev, published by Sciendo
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