Concordance for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in a monochorionic twin pregnancy
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Concordance for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in a monochorionic twin pregnancy.
The risk of structural heart disease is significantly higher in twin pregnancies than in singleton pregnancies, but the concordance rate has been found to be relatively low, even in monochorionic pregnancies. This is the first report of a monochorionic twin pregnancy concordant for hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), the diagnosis having been made by fetal echocardiography at 15 weeks' gest...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0007-0769
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.4.e13