Fetofetal

Quick meaning: Fetofetal is an adjective meaning (medicine) Relating to, or communicating between two fetuses, especially twin fetuses; twin-to-twin.

Meaning

(medicine) Relating to, or communicating between two fetuses, especially twin fetuses; twin-to-twin.

Example Sentences

As a result of this imbalance, a net fetofetal transfusion occurs, from one twin (the donor) to the other (the recipient).

In four cases, appropriate shunt communications meant that the morpho-anatomical conditions were available for the presence of a fetofetal transfusion syndrome.

Acute fetal hypovolemia may be secondary to hemorrhage, as in placenta previa at the end of the pregnancy, or to fetomaternal or fetofetal transfusion. The fetal circulation is theoretically independent, but at the end of pregnancy, fetomaternal or fetofetal circulatory anastomosis may exist.

When fetofetal transfusion syndrome occurs in very preterm gestation, treatment options are limited and often unsuccessful. The perinatal morbidity and mortality of fetofetal transfusion syndrome in very premature twin gestations in 48 pairs of twin gestations delivered at 24-28 weeks' gestation were studied.

Word Forms

• feto-fetal

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include transfusion, fetomaternal, fetopathic, feto-maternal, fetoplacental, maternofetal.

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