Acardiac twin

Marcos Antonio Velasco Sanchez, MD; Luis Vasquez Gaytan, MD; Isaias Dorante Pastor, MD; Zaira Estrada Pineda, MD; Paulina Garrido Madrid, MD.

Hospital General de la S.S.A. Ometepec, Guerrero, Mexico. Centro de Estudios e Investigacion en Ultrasonido General del Estado de Guerrero, Mexico. Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad Autonoma de Guerrero, Mexico.

Case report

Following images show a case of acardiac twin pregnancy that was seen in our department at 34 weeks of pregnancy. Labor was induced at 37 weeks and a normal twin weighing 1890 grams together with an amorphous acardiac twin were delivered.

Images 1-10: 34 weeks of gestation; the images show mass of the acardiac twin.

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Images 11, 12, 13, and 14: Postnatal images showing normal twin (images 11, 12) and amorphous mass of the acardiac twin (images 13, 14). 

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