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Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America's miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency - misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.

Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions Michael Hughes 2010

Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America's miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency - misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.

Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions Michael Hughes 2010

Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America's miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency - misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.

Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions Michael Hughes 2010

Yet U.S. policy in Afghanistan, borne out of ignorance and/or willful neglect, appears bent on doing both as America's miscalculations continue to breathe life into a rag-tag acephalic insurgency - misbegotten strategies that shall likely yield a foreign military presence in Central Asia until the end times.

Michael Hughes: Saving Afghanistan Requires Smashing Dangerous Delusions Michael Hughes 2010

Using color and power Doppler on ultrasound, complete occlusion of blood flow to the acardiac/acephalic twin was confirmed.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010

The term “reversed perfusion” is used to describe this scenario because blood enters the acardiac/acephalic twin through reversed flow through its umbilical artery and exits through the umbilical vein, which is opposite to the normal blood supply of the fetus.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010

The reversed arterial flow in the acardiac/acephalic twin should be documented using color flow Doppler.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010

When the acardiac/acephalic twin outweighs the pump twin by more than 50 percent, death occurs in 64 percent of cases.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010

Twin A was a typical acardiac/acephalic twin with massive diffuse soft tissue edema and an incompletely formed skeleton with no normal head structures, no normal stomach, kidneys or urinary bladder, and the absence of normal cardiac structures.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010

When the volume of the acephalic twin was calculated, it was found to be 130 percent the size of the normal twin placing it in to a greater than 95 percent risk category for significant pregnancy complication.

Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion Sequence and Bipolar Cord 2010