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Re: Multiple pregnancy

From: William McIntosh, MD (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 5 Mar 2001 14:47:29 -0600 (CST)


At Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Suzi wrote: >
>I have been diagniosed as having a monochrionic diamniotic pregnancy
>after having a nuchal translucency scan. Unfortunatly the scan has
>indicated a very high Downs risk (1:8 and 1:9) I am having a CVS test
>tomorrow. Assuming the prenancy continues what are the risks for this
>type of pregnancy, I have been reading some really scary things about
>twin to twin transfusion syndrome.
>
>--
>Suzi
>

Certainly, this would be a high risk pregnancy in a number of ways, twins, monochorionic, CVS, down's risk and so on, but the great majority go very well, and the worst of the risks, the down's, you will know about in a few days. Good luck.

--
William D. McIntosh, MD, FACOG

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