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The ever increasing possibilities of prenatal diagnosis and intra-uterine treatment of malformations has created the need for simple and reproducible experimental models on which to build a better knowledge of the biology of the abnormal fetus. Using our own model of experimental gastroschisis (GX)
OBJECTIVE
To review the outcomes of perinatal management of twins with discordant congenital defects.
METHODS
We retrospectively examined the cases of twins with discordant congenital defects treated in the West China Second University Hospital from December 2011 to December 2013.
RESULTS
There were
BACKGROUND
If creating an obstructive uropathy early in glomerulogenesis produces MCDK (Multicystic Dysplastic Kidney), then a very early obstruction may produce Potter's Syndrome (PS) with oligohydramnios.
METHODS
Fetal lambs at 50 days' gestation underwent urethral and urachal ligation using fine
50 patients were investigated during induction of anaesthesia and infrarenal aortic bypass surgery. 26 were operated on under neuroleptanaesthesia (NA group) and 24 under continuous epidural combined with a light general anaesthesia (epidural group). Blood losses were replaced with 5 per cent human