Screening for Twin Pregnancy
Abstract
A group of 590 women who, 4 to 5 weeks after their last menstrual period, were confirmed to be pregnant, as measured by the human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) by radioreceptor assay. Nine of these women had serum hCG levels approximately twofold higher than the others and were suspected of having twin pregnancy. When these women were tested at 12 weeks of gestation, pelvic sonography confirmed twin pregnancies in all the nine cases. Serum hCG levels thus provide a simple, rapid, and easy method to detect twin pregnancy.
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ACTA GEET MED GEMELL 23: 53 (1974).
LANCET 1: 27 (1975).
AHLSTROM, K, LAKARTIDNINGEN 71: 3089 (1974).
KOSASA, T.S., CLINICAL USE OF A SOLID-PHASE RADIOIMMUNOASSAY SPECIFIC FOR HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 119: 784 (1974).
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SAXENA, B.B., RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY OF HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN - DETECTION OF EARLY-PREGNANCY, SCIENCE 184: 793 (1974).
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Volume 198 | Issue 4318
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ACTA GEET MED GEMELL 23: 53 (1974).
LANCET 1: 27 (1975).
AHLSTROM, K, LAKARTIDNINGEN 71: 3089 (1974).
KOSASA, T.S., CLINICAL USE OF A SOLID-PHASE RADIOIMMUNOASSAY SPECIFIC FOR HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 119: 784 (1974).
LANDESMAN, R, RESULTS OF 1ST 1000 RADIORECEPTORASSAYS FOR DETERMINATION OF HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN - NEW, RAPID, RELIABLE, AND SENSITIVE PREGNANCY TEST, FERTILITY AND STERILITY 27: 357 (1976).
MAGISTE, M, SCREENING FOR DETECTING TWIN PREGNANCY, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 126: 697 (1976).
POWERS, W.F., TWIN PREGNANCY - COMPLICATIONS AND TREATMENT, OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY 42: 795 (1973).
ROSAL, T.P., APPLICATION OF A RADIORECEPTORASSAY OF HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN IN DIAGNOSIS OF EARLY ABORTION, FERTILITY AND STERILITY 26: 1105 (1975).
SAXENA, B.B., RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY OF HUMAN CHORIONIC-GONADOTROPIN - DETECTION OF EARLY-PREGNANCY, SCIENCE 184: 793 (1974).
