Legal and ethical issues related to multifetal pregnancy reduction (MPR) in spontaneously conceived twin pregnancies: an interdisciplinary analysis based on a case study
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Pregnancy outcome after multifetal pregnancy reduction to twins compared with spontaneously conceived twins.
Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) appears to be an efficacious method for improving the perinatal outcome of 'high order' multifetal gestations. The present study was undertaken to evaluate pregnancy outcomes after MFPR to twins in comparison with spontaneously conceived twins. In all, 10 patients with quadruplet gestation (group 1) and 30 patients with triplet gestation (group 2), who unde...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Italian journal of gynaecology & obstetrics
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2385-0868']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36129/jog.2022.58