Resumen

FINALI, Pablo; ESCALANTE, Ricardo; RIVERA, Luanys  y  CABRERA, Carlos. Gemelo acardio: Reporte de un caso a término. Rev Obstet Ginecol Venez [online]. 2013, vol.73, n.4, pp.277-285. ISSN 0048-7732.

Case presentation: Patient aged 28, II pregnancies, I para no medical history or personal insults before and during pregnancy to interrogation, nor a history of personal or familial congenital malformations. A prenatal obstetric ultrasound was performed showing: twins pregnancy monochorionic/diamniotic, first fetus: 14 weeks for fetal biometry without anatomic abnormalities, nuchal translucency and nasal bone present standard, power Doppler normal. Second fetus: image-edged ecomixta support acardiac fetus of 15 weeks for femur length, power Doppler no evidence of flows; placenta posterior left middle. During pregnancy the patient presents a urinary infection at 26 weeks which was treated and later, 30 weeks, the patient presents an uncomplicated dengue fever. First fetus echocardiogram: functional and anatomically normal heart. The first fetus was expectantly followed with continuous Doppler flowmetry without affecting the first fetus fetus up to 39 weeks + 1 day, culminating pregnancy via segmentary cesarean obtaining an apparently healthy newborn male and amorphous acardiac fetus, which underwent radiological and autopsy studies, reporting amorphous acardiac twin (milicefalo). Conclusion: The mortality of the two fetuses between the first and second quarter is very high if not diagnosed early and gives proper monitoring.

Palabras clave : Acardiac twin.