Acardiac – Acephalus Twin – A Rare Case Report and Review of Literature

Acardiac twin pregnancy is a rare complication of monochorionic twinning caused by aterioarterial and venovenous placental anastomosis, leading to circulatory predominance of one twin (1). The donor “pump’ twin provides circulation for itself as well as and for the recipient acardiac twin. The acard...

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Main Authors: Mukta Mital, Tanuj Garg, Prashant K. Gupta, Vinit Nanda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2015-12-01
Series:International Journal of Recent Surgical and Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0039-1678625