Simulating the operational workspace performances of fetoscopic laser photocoagulation instruments in twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome gestations: A preliminary empirical study

The twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome is a lethal hemodynamic imbalance between identical fetal twins as a result of vascular anastomoses in the monochorionic plate. With a fetoscopic laser photocoagulation the communicating vessels are interrupted, eliminating the inter-twin blood exchange. Since the first instruments were straight and rigid,...