Intra-arterial calcifications in the recipient twin in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome.
Pulmonary artery, and rarely aortic, calcifications have been reported in sporadic case reports in the recipient twin of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. This presentation is more likely to be secondary to the haemodynamic alterations in the recipient twin, but must be differentiated from idiopathic infantile arterial calcification as the clinical implications, treatment, and prognosis may be drastically different.
Advocate Children's Hospital,Oak Lawn,Illinois,United States of America.
Syed Javed H
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4939-0073
SJH
Zaidi
Advocate Children's Hospital,Oak Lawn,Illinois,United States of America.
Rupali
R
Gandhi
Advocate Children's Hospital,Oak Lawn,Illinois,United States of America.
Saad
S
Siddiqui
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005330:Fetofetal Transfusion / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D059285:Pregnancy, Twin; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal; D061205:Vascular Calcification / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*
ABCC6; ENPP1; Twin-to-twin transfusion; intra-arterial calcification; pulmonary artery calcification