[Non-immunologic hydrops fetalis].

Non-immunologic hydrops fetalis: a review of 27 cases.

Twenty seven babies with severe non-haemolytic hydrops fetalis were born during a 7 1/4 year period (1/1400 total births). Thirteen were live born and admitted to the intensive care nursery, but only three survived. The survivors differed from those live born infants who died in the neonatal period in that the cause of the hydrops was discovered antenatally, their serum concentrations of total ...

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 In hydrops fetalis, the affected fetus may show considerable subcutaneous edema, usually associated with ascites and pleural effusion. Severe hemolysis, marked erythroid hyperplasia of the bone marrow and large area of extramedullary hematopoesis, particularly in the spleen and liver which may cause hepatic dysfunction, are the symptoms of hydrops fetalis.  Hydrops fetalis is divided to Immune...

Placental Chorioangioma as the Cause of Non-Immunologic Hydrops Fetalis; a Case Report

BACKGROUND Chorioangiomas are the most common benign tumors of the placenta originating from primitive angioblastic tissues. It comprises near 1 percent of placental tumors. Clinical manifestations in the newborn are rare and usually associated with tumors greater than 5 cm in diameter and consist of polyhydramnios, fetal anemia, massive edema with pleural effusion, ascites and intrauterine gro...

Non-immune hydrops fetalis

Evaluation of Causes,Frequency and Prognosis of Hydrops Fetalis: A Case- Series Study at a Referral Hospital in Tehran, Iran

Introduction Hydrops Fetalis is a serious condition in fetal period, characterized by the presence of serous fluid accumulation in at least two potential spaces in fetus including pleural effusion, pericardial effusion, and ascites. The incidence of hydrops fetalis is one per 2500-3000 pregnancies. This condition is followed by different diseases. Fetal hemolytic anemia and its hypoxemia due to...