Salvage Surgery of the Limb with Severe Pseudoamniotic Band Syndrome: Case Report and Literature Review


Cologlu H., Ozkan B., Cologlu O., Yalcinkaya C., Uysal A. C., Borman H.

HANDCHIRURGIE MIKROCHIRURGIE PLASTISCHE CHIRURGIE, cilt.46, sa.2, ss.121-124, 2014 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

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Pseudoamniotic band syndrome is a rare iatrogenic complication of twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome treated with foetoscopic procedures. We report a severe pseudoamniotic band syndrome in the recipient monochorionic diamniotic twin pregnancy with twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome following a selective foeticide procedure. A male newborn with a severe circumferential amniotic band in the left leg was treated by single-stage excision of the ring and arterio-venous decompression. No complications were encountered. A microsurgical approach to improve the circulation together with ring excision may be useful in some cases.