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Ayla Buyukkaya1, Guven Tekbas2, Ramazan Buyukkaya3

  • 1Department of Radiology, Duzce Ataturk Government Hospital, Duzce, Turkey.

Iranian Journal of Radiology : a Quarterly Journal Published by the Iranian Radiological Society
|November 12, 2015
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Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP) sequence is a syndrome with poor prognosis, seen only in monochorionic monozygotic twin pregnancies. The incidence is one in 35.000 births and one in 100 monozygotic twin pregnancies. It is characterized with a recipient fetus exhibiting lethal anomalies including acardia and a pump fetus. Mortality is usually due to heart failure or premature labor caused by polyhydramnios of pump fetus. Herein, we report a case of TRAP sequence that emphasizes the importance of gray-scale and color Doppler imaging in the diagnosis and management of TRAP sequence.

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