Purpose: To evaluate pregnancy
outcome of selective second-trimester multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR)
compared with that of first-trimester MFPR, and control group which consists of
women with ongoing primary twin pregnancies. Materials and Methods: This
retrospective cohort study included all women with triplet pregnancies who
underwent fetal reductions to twin pregnancies from January 2010 to December 2019
in Shandong Provincial Hospital. 154 MFPR were performed by intracardially
injection of potassium chloride, 8 MFPR were performed by intracranially
injection of potassium chloride. Reductions to monochorionic twins and reductions
to one embryo were excluded. All procedures were performed at 12-24
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The early second-trimester multifetal pregnancy reduction improves pregnancy outcome
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Center for Reproductive Medicine, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, 250021 Shandong, P. R. China
2
Medical Informatics Center, Peking University, 100191 Beijing, P. R. China
*Correspondence: medic@bjmu.edu.cn (Yan-Hui Zhu)
Clin. Exp. Obstet. Gynecol. 2021, 48(1), 164–167;
https://doi.org/10.31083/j.ceog.2021.01.5519
Submitted: 5 February 2020 | Revised: 31 August 2020 | Accepted: 2 September 2020 | Published: 15 February 2021
Copyright: © 2021 The Authors. Published by IMR Press.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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Multiple pregnancy
Multifetal pregnancy reduction