Complications of monochorionic diamnionic placentation
Clinical signs
- mortality is 10 – 25%, the highest during the perinatal period
- growth of the twins depends on the following factors:
- insertion of the umbilical cord (velamentous or marginal × central)
- the existence and type of vascular anastomoses between the placentas
- placental sharing between the twins (may be very unequal)
The fetus with a velamentous umbilical cord insertion and a distinctly smaller area of the placenta,
from which it is fed, is in danger of chronic hypoxia, malnutrition and growth retardation. Discordant
growth of the twins is a rule in twin transfusion syndrome.