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Case Reports
. 2019 Sep 18;12(9):e227667.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2018-227667.

Recovery of second trimester pre-eclampsia after fetal reduction of a triplet

Jeske M Bij de Weg  1 , Christianne J de Groot  1 , Eva Pajkrt  2 , Marjon A de Boer  1
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Recovery of second trimester pre-eclampsia after fetal reduction of a triplet

Jeske M Bij de Weg et al. BMJ Case Rep. .

Abstract

Women with a multiple pregnancy are at increased risk of developing hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We describe a case of a dichorionic triamniotic triplet pregnancy complicated by severe hypertension, proteinuria and maternal symptoms, fitting with the diagnosis of pre-eclampsia, apart from the early gestational age of only 16 weeks. After reduction of the monochorionic pair, the disease resolved and pre-eclampsia was diagnosed again at 30 weeks of gestation, resulting in a delivery on maternal indication at 33 weeks of gestation. In a review of the literature, we found six papers including eight cases on multifetal pregnancy reduction on maternal indication. Multifetal pregnancy reduction resulted in a prolongation of pregnancy of two to 21 weeks and may be considered in extreme early onset pre-eclampsia in dichorionic multiple pregnancies.

Keywords: Obstetrics And Gynaecology; Pregnancy.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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