Temporary resolution of preeclamptic symptoms after intrauterine death of one twin.
In a 34 year old woman with dichorionic twin pregnancy preeclampsia resolved after the intrauterine death of one of the HLA-identical twins and recurred with the growth of the placenta of the surviving twin later in pregnancy. This case gives indirect evidence that the clinical course of preeclampsia is a dose-dependent phenomenon in conjunction with vital placental tissue.
Bschierl
Frank
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Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital St. Marien, Erlangen, Germany.
Beinder
Ernst
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death; D006801:Humans; D010920:Placenta / Q000502:physiology; D011225:Pre-Eclampsia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011247:Pregnancy; D014427:Twins; D018608:Ultrasonography, Doppler; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal