Sextuplet pregnancy.
In a sextuplet pregnancy which followed gonadotrophin therapy the principal problems were threatened abortion, premature labour, and placental insufficiency. Delivery was by caesarean section soon after the onset of labour at 32 weeks. The five liveborn babies thrived. The sixth was a macerated stillbirth.
D000033:Abortion, Threatened; D002585:Cesarean Section; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004964:Estriol / Q000652:urine; D004970:Estrone / Q000652:urine; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D007752:Obstetric Labor, Premature; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011247:Pregnancy; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple; D011276:Pregnanediol / Q000652:urine
D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D004970:Estrone; D004964:Estriol; D011276:Pregnanediol