1. Intra-arterial calcifications in the recipient twin in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome
- Author
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Saad Siddiqui, Syed Javed H. Zaidi, and Rupali Gandhi
- Subjects
Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Hemodynamics ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Pulmonary Artery ,Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome ,Ultrasonography, Prenatal ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Pregnancy ,030225 pediatrics ,Internal medicine ,medicine.artery ,medicine ,Intra arterial ,Humans ,Vascular Calcification ,business.industry ,Infant, Newborn ,General Medicine ,Fetofetal Transfusion ,medicine.disease ,Twin to twin transfusion ,Idiopathic infantile arterial calcification ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Pulmonary artery ,Cardiology ,Pregnancy, Twin ,Female ,Presentation (obstetrics) ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed - Abstract
Pulmonary artery, and rarely aortic, calcifications have been reported in sporadic case reports in the recipient twin of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This presentation is more likely to be secondary to the haemodynamic alterations in the recipient twin, but must be differentiated from idiopathic infantile arterial calcification as the clinical implications, treatment, and prognosis may be drastically different.
- Published
- 2016