Oral communication abstractspatients were complicated with sIUGR type II/III. NT-proBNP in amniotic fluid of TTTS stage III/IV [median 2215 ng/g (210-17800)] was significantly elevated compared with those of TTTS stage I/II [median 842 ng/g (101-9,050)]and sIUGR [median 1323 ng/g (123-3,470)], respectively (p = 0.02). NT-proBNP elevated only when recipient twins showed absent or reversed flow in ductus venosus. Abnormal Doppler flows in either the umbilical artery or the ductus venosus in donor/small twins were not associated with NT-proBNP concentration. Conclusions: NT-proBNP in amniotic fluid is strongly associated with the advanced pathologic condition of heart failure in recipient twins. Abnormal Doppler in ductus venosus reflected of the elevated biological marker, NT-proBNP, in recipient twin. Larger twin in sIUGR is in a different condition from recipient twin in TTTS.
OC22.06Short-term cardiac follow-up of survivors of Twin-twin transfusion syndrome treated with fetoscopic laser coagulation
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