Single fetal death in twin gestations

Journal of Perinatal Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 65-69

  Blickstein, Isaac ^a   Perlman, Sharon ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

End organ damage; Fetal death; Premature delivery; Twin gestation

Indexed keywords

THROMBOPLASTIN;

ABORTION; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTERY PERFUSION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FETUS DEATH; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS WASTAGE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GASTROSCHISIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HYDRANENCEPHALY; HYPOTENSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; KIDNEY CORTEX NECROSIS; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NUCHAL TRANSLUCENCY MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE HYPOPLASIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION; PORENCEPHALY; PREMATURE LABOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPHYLAXIS; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SURVIVOR; SYNDROME; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERUS; VANISHING TWIN SYNDROME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; TWINS;

FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TWIN; TWINS;

EID: 84881656969     PISSN: 03005577     EISSN: 16193997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jpm-2012-0019     Document Type: Article

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