López-Pérez Rocío, Lorente Mónica, Martínez-Uriarte Juan, Rivero Inmaculada M, García-Izquierdo Olivia, Jódar María Ángeles, Molina Francisca
Unidad de Medicina Fetal, Hospital General Universitario Santa Lucía, Cartagena, Spain.
Fetal Diagn Ther. 2015;37(2):157-60. doi: 10.1159/000361019. Epub 2014 Aug 16.
We report a case of a twin-reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence complication in monochorionic triplets, in which both normal fetuses were directly connected to the umbilical cord of the acardiac fetus, thus both acting as a pump twin. Doppler ultrasound showed a significant waveform pattern with two superposed systolic waveforms in the same vessel. After birth, placental findings confirmed the existence of two direct pump twins. The Doppler pattern described here may be of help to distinguish the existence of two pump twins in a triplet monochorionic pregnancy with TRAP.
我们报告了一例单绒毛膜三胎妊娠中的双胎反向动脉灌注(TRAP)序列并发症,其中两个正常胎儿都直接与无心胎儿的脐带相连,因此两者都充当泵血双胎。多普勒超声显示同一血管中有两个叠加的收缩期波形,具有显著的波形模式。出生后,胎盘检查结果证实存在两个直接泵血双胎。本文描述的多普勒模式可能有助于鉴别单绒毛膜三胎妊娠合并TRAP时两个泵血双胎的存在。