Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome

Marcos Velasco Sanchez, MD Andres Zurita, MD

Instituto de Diagnostico por Imagen, Hospital General de Acapulco, Mexico

This is a 18-year-old-primigravida that presented in our unit with a twin-to-twin transfusion. The case resulted in fetal demise of the recipient twin.

Note the typical image with the "stuck-twin" and the recipient twin (dead) floating in the amniotic fluid

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Cardiac frequency of the "stuck" twin and the Doppler of the umbilical artery

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3D view showing the twins. The donor twin is the one close to the uterine wall.

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Note the severe polyhydramnios (52,2cm)

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The donor twin

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