There are only a few reports of fetal parvovirus infection in the circumstance of a twin pregnancy. We report a case of differential fetal infection following maternal parvovirus B19 infection in a dichorionic twin pregnancy culminating in a dual live-birth. A 32-year-old woman was diagnosed with parvovirus infection following exposure to her infected child at 19 weeks' gestation in a dichorion...

Results We present the case of a 29-year-old pregnant woman referred to our center due to dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy (concordant with sex), hypothyroidism and fetal spina bifida associated to Arnold-Chiari malformation type II. She denied the use of folic acid supplementation during pregnancy. The previous pregnancy was uneventful. The patient's husband was a 32-year-old and nonconsa...

Method: This study is further analysis of data in a case report of a dichorionic-dizygotic twin pregnancy in which one twin (Twin-A) presented three months postnatally with seizure. The other twin (Twin-B) developed normally and so became a control. The twins showed similar head growth up to 24 weeks but subsequently the rate of head growth of Twin-A exceeded that of Twin-B. Later, from 29 week...

The author reports two cases of adolescent pregnancy, primigravida, with excessive weight gain during antenatal care (ANC). Without health education in self care, these cases developed eclamptic convulsions. The treatment of the convulsions by administering diazepam to the mothers intravenously, and the low birth weight of the newborn, caused the babies to have low Apgar scores. Two of the 3 ba...

Background: True knot of the umbilical cord is an uncommon finding, which is difficult to diagnose antenatally. The appropriate management of patients with a sonographically identified true knot is yet to be determined. Case: We present a twin pregnancy, in which antenatal diagnosis of a true knot of the umbilical cord was made at 33 weeks’ gestation. Fetal Doppler examination showed an absence...

SIR,-I wish to refer to the excellent article by Drs. H. G. Miller, J. B. Stanton, and J. L. Gibbons on acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (Journal, March 23, p. 668). Unfortunately, however, it perpetuates an error which has crept into the literature concerning the reports of cases in which the condition of acute haemorrhagic leuco-encephalitis has complicated an infectious exanthem. In 1945...

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A single placenta normally supports a single fetus. When the situation arises in which two fetuses have to share a single placenta, complications may sometimes develop. Identical twins that share a single placenta are called monochorionic twins (MC). ?Chorion? is the Latin root that refers to the placenta, while the word ?amnion? refers to the sac, or ?membranes? that surround each fetus. While...

A single placenta normally supports a single fetus. When the situation arises in which two fetuses have to share a single placenta, complications may sometimes develop. Identical twins that share a single placenta are called monochorionic twins (MC). ?Chorion? is the Latin root that refers to the placenta, while the word ?amnion? refers to the sac, or ?membranes? that surround each fetus. While...

BACKGROUND The incidence of unilateral twin ectopic pregnancy is a rare condition. Several factors increase the risk of ectopic pregnancy, the most important of which is pelvic inflammatory disease, followed by operative trauma, congenital anomalies, tumors, and adhesions resulting in anatomically distorted fallopian tubes. We present a case of a woman with a history of four confirmed sexually ...