In some cases, a healthy twin and a parasitic twin are born.
Many TRAP pregnancies result in heart failure for the healthy twin.
Six patients were treated with sulphasalazine and one healthy twin with prednisolone for chronic hepatitis, 5 mg every second day.
A thorough interview revealed no symptoms suggestive of inflammatory bowel disease in the healthy twins.
We therefore separately analysed six discordant twin pairs, and found no significant differences between healthy and affected twins.
But Dr. Wapner said he had reduced a pair of healthy twins to one "at the patient's request."
Her only hope for survival was a transplant from a healthy identical twin.
Whether the birth results in a pair of healthy twins or not, the mother clothes and cares for both figures to insure her continued fertility.
It would be like making a healthy twin spend his life in a hospital bed just because his brother was in a coma.
She gave birth to healthy twins: Henry and Catherine.