High risk of unexpected late fetal death in monochorionic twins despite intensive ultrasound surveillance: A cohort study

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 0521-0527

  Barigye, Olivia ^a   Pasquini, Lucia ^a   Galea, Paula ^a   Chambers, Helen ^b   Chappell, Lucy ^a   Fisk, Nicholas M ^a  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MEDICAL SERVICE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; STILLBIRTH; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; TWINS; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NEWBORN ANEMIA; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIO-ARTERIAL FISTULA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 22144463886     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0020172     Document Type: Article

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