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For example, a pregnant female who carried one pregnancy to term with a surviving infant; carried one pregnancy to 35 weeks with surviving twins; carried one pregnancy to 9 weeks as an ectopic (tubal) pregnancy; and has three living children would have a TPAL annotation of T1, P1, A1, L3. This could also be written as 1-1-1-3.
645 Prolonged pregnancy. 645.1 Post term pregnancy; 645.2 Prolonged pregnancy; 646 Other complications of pregnancy, not elsewhere classified 646.0 Papyraceous fetus; 646.1 Edema or excessive weight gain in pregnancy without mention of hypertension; 646.2 Unspecified renal disease in pregnancy without mention of hypertension; 646.3 Habitual ...
A study in 2013 involving 106 participating centers in 25 countries came to the conclusion that, in a twin pregnancy of a gestational age between 32 weeks 0 days and 38 weeks 6 days, and the first twin is in cephalic presentation, planned Cesarean section does not significantly decrease or increase the risk of fetal or neonatal death or serious ...
A heterotopic pregnancy is a complication of pregnancy in which both extrauterine pregnancy and intrauterine pregnancy occur simultaneously. [2] It may also be referred to as a combined ectopic pregnancy, multiple‑sited pregnancy, or coincident pregnancy. The most common site of the extrauterine pregnancy is the fallopian tube.
Born prematurely at 28 weeks, six of the octuplets died within 12 hours of birth, and the remaining two died within three days. [113] [133] A set of octuplets was born between 30 September – 2 October 1996, in a hospital in South London, United Kingdom, to Mandy Allwood of Solihull. Allwood was only 19 weeks pregnant when she went into pre ...
[1] [2] The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning able to produce offspring. Homopaternal superfecundation is fertilization of two separate ova from the same father, leading to fraternal twins , [ 3 ] while heteropaternal superfecundation is a form of atypical twinning where, genetically, the twins are half siblings – sharing ...
On the right, the "pump twin" which supplies the acardiac twin with blood. A selective termination of the acardiac twin reduces the risk of death of the pump twin. Selective reduction is used when a mother is carrying an unsafe or undesirable number of fetuses in a multiple pregnancy, which are common in medically assisted pregnancies. The ...
Twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS), also known as feto-fetal transfusion syndrome (FFTS), twin oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence (TOPS) and stuck twin syndrome, is a complication of monochorionic multiple pregnancies (the most common form of identical twin pregnancy) in which there is disproportionate blood supply between the fetuses.