Volume : VII, Issue : IV, April - 2018

Acardiac Acephalic Twin: Case Report and Review of Literature

Dr. Anita Kumari

Abstract :

 Acardiac twining has an incidence of approximately 1 in35, 000 deliveries1.One twin is usually normal while the other has body

like tissue with malformed leg and lower body with absent upper body or heart. The abnormal blood vessels on the placental
surface allow the normal twin to pump blood to tissue of abnormal twin. As normal twin has to pump blood for two, there is high
chance of heart failure and death of normal twin. We present here a rare case of acardiac Acephalic twin in a 19 year old primigravida
patient.

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Dr. Anita Kumari, Acardiac Acephalic Twin: Case Report and Review of Literature, PARIPEX‾INDIAN JOURNAL OF RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-4 | April-2018


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