Multiple Pregnancy
Publisher: RCOG Press 2011
Number of pages: 235
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This guideline contains recommendations specific to twin and triplet pregnancies and covers the following clinical areas: optimal methods to determine gestational age and chorionicity; maternal and fetal screening programmes to identify structural abnormalities, chromosomal abnormalities and feto-fetal transfusion syndrome, and to detect intrauterine growth restriction; the effectiveness of interventions to prevent spontaneous preterm birth; and routine antenatal corticosteroid prophylaxis for reducing perinatal morbidity.
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