Current ideas on anemia-polycythemia syndrome in monochorionic multiple pregnancy (TAPS)

Markova T.V., Kosovtsova N.V., Kuklin E.S, Pavlichenko M.V., Pospelova Ya.Yu.

Ural Research Institute of Maternal and Infant Care, Ministry of Health of Russia, Yekaterinburg, Russia
The authors have studied the basic principles of the concept of anemia-polycythemia syndrome, the pathogenesis of this pathological condition in monochorionic multiple pregnancies, the key signs of diagnosis based on Russian and foreign articles published on this topic in 2009 to 2018 and put in the PubMed database. The review considers distinctive signs between specific complications that occur in monochorionic twins as a result of intertwin transfusion — anemia-polycythemia syndrome (APS, English TAPS — an anemic-polycythemia transfusion sequence) and oligo-polyuria syndrome (OPS, English TOPS – oligo-polyuria transfusion syndrome), current methods for therapy and correction of APS, as well as pregnancy outcomes in women with different types of anemia-polycythemia syndrome or concurrent with OPS.

Keywords

monochorionic twins
feto-fetal transfusion syndrome
anemia-polycythemia syndrome
oliguria-polyuria syndrome

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Received 30.01. 2019

Accepted 22.02.2019

About the Authors

Markova T.V., Candidate of Sciences, Senior Researcher, FSBI «Ural Mother and Child Research Institute» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg-city, Repina 1 620028, +79122283036, ta.ma.vl@mail.ru
Kosovtsova N.V., Candidate of Sciences, Head of the Department of Biophysical and Radiation Research, FSBI «Ural Mother and Child Research Institute» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg-city, Repina 1, 620028, +7-912-26-59-169, kosovcovan@mail.ru
Kuklin E.S., resident doctor, FSBI «Ural Mother and Child Research Institute» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg-city, Repina 1,
620028, 89221137953, george.kooklin@gmail.com
Pavlichenko M.V., Candidate of Sciences, Head of the Department of Young Children, Pediatrician of the Highest Category, FSBI «Ural Mother and Child Research Institute» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg-city, Repina 1, 620028, 8 (343) 371-40-92, omm@k66.ru
Pospelova Ya.Yu, doctor of ultrasound diagnostics, graduate student of the Ural Research Institute of Maternity and Infancy, Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg, Repina 1620028, +79221137953, jana.pospelova@yandex.ru

For citations: Markova T.V., Kosovtsova N.V., Kuklin E.S, Pavlichenko M.V., Pospelova Ya.Yu. Current ideas on anemia-polycythemia syndrome in monochorionic multiple pregnancy (TAPS). Akusherstvo i ginekologiya/Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2019;(7):24-9 (in Russian)
https://dx.doi.org/10.18565/aig.2019.7.24-29

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