Preterm Delivery of Twins

• Authors: Birgit Arabin
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The incidence of twin gestation has increased over the past decades and contributes to an increased rate of spontaneous preterm birth and increased mortality and morbidity up to adult age. Prevention of spontaneous preterm birth in twin pregnancies differs from interventions in singleton pregnancies. Up to now, many treatment modalities have been investigated such as bed rest, tocolytics, antibiotics, cerclage or progestagens, but have failed to prevent prematurity rates in twin gestations or were even combined with harmful effects. Cervical pessaries might be a non-invasive cost-effective option, but it is mandatory to evaluate vaginal progesterone and cervical pessaries in twin gestations with a short cervix in further randomized trials.

Keywords

EN

twin pregnancy; prevention of sponatenous preterm birth; cervical assessment

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Prenatal Cardiology
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5-12

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2014

received

27 - 7 - 2014

accepted

27 - 7 - 2014

online

30 - 12 - 2015

Contributors

author

Birgit Arabin

• Clara Angela Foundation, Witten and Berlin, Germany, 2Center for Mother and Child University of Marburg, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12847/09141