Septuplet placenta: a case report
| Autor: | Karen Drake, Kathleen Hansen, Steven D. Suvalsky, Jo Ann Benda, Paula R. Mahone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Placenta Labor Presentation Pregnancy medicine Birth Weight Humans Cesarean delivery Ovulation reproductive and urinary physiology media_common Gynecology Singleton Obstetrics business.industry Cesarean Section Infant Newborn Obstetrics and Gynecology Gestational age medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Gestation Female Pregnancy Multiple business |
| Zdroj: | American journal of obstetrics and gynecology. 192(6) |
| ISSN: | 0002-9378 |
| Popis: | Objective On November 19, 1997, 7 liveborn infants (4 boys and 3 girls) were delivered by cesarean delivery at 30.5 weeks gestational age. The pregnancy was the result of artificial induction of ovulation. Study design The septuplet placenta was evaluated with a standard and systematic procedure for placentas of multiple births that revealed a septamnionic, septchorionic architecture with 5 fused and 2 unfused placentas. Results Each of the 7 umbilical cords contained 3 vessels. Two cords were velamentous; the remaining 5 cords were inserted eccentrically. The ratio of combined birth weights of the 7 infants to total placental weight (7.52:1) correlated with normograms of singleton and twin gestations. Conclusion This ratio and additional calculations were used for comparison and for additional clinicopathologic correlations. |
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