Audit of immediate outcomes for MCDA twins following laser therapy for twin-twin transfusion syndrome at the NSW Fetal Therapy Centre

Abstract

This Australian series shows that local outcomes after SLPCV for stages II-IV TTTS remain equal to the international published literature and have remained stable after an initial learning curve. Women were more likely to be Stage II rather than III in the more recent years. However, this does not appear to be attributable to altered referral patterns.

Outcome reporting across randomized trials and observational studies evaluating treatments for twin–twin transfusion syndrome: systematic review

“…Two hundred and thirty studies were therefore deemed eligible after full‐text review. From these, all randomized trials ( n = 6) and the largest observational studies ( n = 94) were selected for analysis (Figure ). There were 13 case–control studies, 32 prospective cohort studies and 49 retrospective cohort studies.…”

Ultrasound‐based three‐dimensional printed medical model for multispecialty team surgical rehearsal prior to fetoscopic myelomeningocele repair

“…Case‐specific surgical rehearsal has been proven to be beneficial in certain complex surgeries because it allows deliberate and repetitive individual and team practice of challenging surgical steps, pre‐identification of potential obstacles and errors, and decreased operative time. Similarly, this exercise allowed our operative team to finalize the surgical approach, anticipate intraoperative challenges, optimize surgical instrumentation and determine the roles of the team members in the shared operative steps, in order to maximize intraoperative efficiency, smooth interaction and collaborative support without the time pressure inherent during the actual procedure.…”