A case with a pleural effusion and hydrops fetalis has been presented. Good outcome had been achieved by a single thoracentesis and a healthy baby w as delivered at the 39th w eek of pregnancy. In a fetus with a pleural effusion and hydrops fetalis, normal like echogenic view of the affected side lung and lung expansion during aspiration without any signs of fetal distress are good prognostic s...

The high incidence of double-gene deletions in α-thalassaemia increases the risk of having pregnancies with homozygous α(0)-thalassaemia, the cause of the lethal haemoglobin (Hb) Bart's hydrops fetalis syndrome. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has played an important role in preventing such cases. However, the current gap-PCR based PGD protocol for deletional α-thalassaemia requires spe...

Non-immune fetal hydrops is diagnosed when there is fluid accumulation in more than one extravascular space. A long list of etiologies has been found in association with non-immune hydrops. Thorough investigations are needed to be able to identify an underlying cause. There are many recent reports indicating that non-immune hydrops can be an extreme presentation of a number of metabolic disorde...

If we agree with Sega and Nintendo advertising and look at the selling numbers of the game Super Monkey Ball, it seems that its characters, MeeMee, GonGon, Baby and AiAi would have to be some of the most successful computer game characters ever created. The game doesn't have any story, but the monkeys have personality and are ever so cute. Is it possible that the "aesthetics of cuteness" so pre...

purpose: to compare visual and refractive outcomes as well as graft survival after penetrating keratoplasty (pk) in keratoconic patients with or without acute hydrops. methods: in this comparative interventional case series, 14 eyes of 14 keratoconic patients with acute hydrops (group 1) and 37 eyes of 37 keratoconic patients with no history of acute hydrops (group 2) underwent pk. visual acuit...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of prenatal steroid treatment in fetuses with sonographically diagnosed congenital cystic adenomatoid malformations (CCAMs). METHODS This was an institutional review board-approved retrospective review of 372 patients referred to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), for fetal CCAM. Inclusion criteria were (1) a predo...

A 4-year-old boy presented with a congenital tail on the sacrococcygeal region.The like structure was so cute and bouncy in consistency, having no voluntary movement communication spinal cord.

With the decline in the frequency of rhesus isoimmunisation, hydrops fetalis secondary to other factors is becoming increasingly recognised. We describe a case in association with chorioangioma of the placenta. The causes of non immune hydrops are reviewed and the problems of management discussed.

OBJECTIVE Holoprosencephaly is a kind of brain anomaly characterized by inadequate cleavage of the prosencephalon during early embryogenesis. In addition, holoprosencephaly associated with cystic hygroma and hydrops fetalis has never been reported. In this article, we report a rare case of holoprosencephaly associated with cystic hygroma and hydrops fetalis diagnosed prenatally. CASE REPORT A...

UNLABELLED In experimental endolymphatic hydrops distortion-products otoacoustic emission (dpoae) amplitudes decrease and there is elevation on electrocochleographic thresholds. Some authors found type ii nitric oxide synthase (nos ii) expression in hydropic cochleas and they suggest nitric oxide (no) may be involved in endolymphatic hydrops pathogenesis. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...