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Women attending an early pregnancy unit underwent a transvaginal ultrasound examination. In women with a viable twin pregnancy between 7 + 0 and 9 + 6 weeks of gestation, the CRL ratio between the two embryos was calculated. Women were followed up and the intertwin discrepancy in CRL at the 7 + 0 to 9 + 6\u2010week scan was compared between cases in which there was spontaneous reduction to a singleton and those in which both twins remained viable at the 11\u201314\u2010week scan.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>There were 77 women included in the study and nine (12%) of these had a single fetal loss. Pregnancies with subsequent single fetal loss were more likely to have a larger median CRL discrepancy (42.0%; interquartile range (IQR), 23.8\u201364.3%) than were those which retained two viable fetuses (6.1%; IQR, 2.2\u201312.5%) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001). The median CRL discrepancy in subsequently viable monochorionic diamniotic twins (10.9%; IQR, 1.9\u201317.5%) was no different from that in dichorionic diamniotic twin pregnancies (5.9%; IQR, 2.1\u201312.3%) (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> = 0.305). Regardless of chorionicity, there was a relationship between increasing CRL discrepancy and single fetal loss; the likelihood of a subsequently viable twin pregnancy was 97% if the discrepancy was &lt; 20%, while if the discrepancy was &gt; 60% there were no cases of both twins remaining viable (<jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic> &lt; 0.0001). Receiver\u2013operating characteristics curve analysis of CRL discrepancy in predicting single fetal loss gave an area under the curve of 0.93, with an optimum cut\u2010off point of 16.9% discrepancy (sensitivity, 88.9%; 95% CI, 51.8\u201399.7; and specificity, 86.7%; 95% CI, 76.3\u201393.8).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>There is a significant relationship between CRL discrepancy at 7 + 0 to 9 + 6 weeks and the likelihood of subsequent single intrauterine fetal loss. This suggests that spontaneous fetal demise of one twin may be preceded by growth restriction in the first trimester. Copyright \u00a9 2009 ISUOG. 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