oligohydramnios/edema

BACKGROUND Pregnancies complicated by fetal cystic hygroma in the second and third trimesters are often associated with hydrops fetalis, oligohydramnios or intrauterine fetal death which may make genetic assessment more difficult. We investigated the roles of amniocentesis, postmortem chorionic

OBJECTIVE To report a case of EEC syndrome with a large nephrogenic cyst detected by prenatal ultrasonography. METHODS Prenatal ultrasonographic detection, genetic counselling, termination of pregnancy, radiographic study, autopsy and ultrastructural study of scalp hair. The literature on EEC

UNASSIGNED Gastroschisis is a congenital malformation with an easy and early prenatal diagnosis, however, it has a variable post-natal outcome. Our aim was to determine if certain ultrasound markers or early delivery were related with a worse postnatal outcome. METHODS Retrospective study of a

Twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) may complicate multiple pregnancy. Monochorionic discordant twins with oligohydramnios and polyhydramnios may be diagnostic. Hydrops fetalis is particularly ominous. All the signs can appear independently at any stage of gestation. However, TTTS with hydrops

A systematic sonographic evaluation of hydropic fetus is presented, based on 21 cases and a literature review. The clinical implications of fetal ascites with or without anasarca, maternal hydramnios, maternal oligohydramnios, or an abnormally thick placenta are discussed as they relate to fetal

OBJECTIVE To report the first known case of 6p deletion presenting in utero with hydrops fetalis and multiple anomalies in the second trimester of pregnancy. METHODS A thirty-year-old woman (gravida 3 para 1 abortion 1) was referred to our hospital at 18 weeks of gestation because of suspicion of

Fetal cystic adenomatoid malformation, type I, is a rare pulmonary anomaly that has been diagnosed after 20 weeks' gestation. The prognosis of this malformation is usually dependent on whether it is microcystic, types II and III, or macrocystic, type I. We report a case of severe macrocystic fetal

OBJECTIVE The sonographic examination of fetuses is generally thought to be compromised when oligohydramnios is present because of the subjective impression of less adequate visualization of fetal anatomy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the extent to which oligohydramnios limits our ability

OBJECTIVE Diagnosis of the Bart's hydrops fetalis [corrected]. METHODS Bart's hydrops fetalis [corrected] was discovered by chance in the fetus of a female Chinese patient. Major intrauterine growth retardation, oligohydramnios, an immobile fetus, and cardiomegaly were the principal echographic

We report a case of trisomy 21 mosaicism detected upon amniocentesis in a 36-year-old woman. Ultrasound examination at 23 weeks' gestation showed a fetus with hydrops, pulmonary hypoplasia, oligohydramnios, thickened placenta, and intrauterine growth retardation. Cytogenetic analysis revealed

Type III congenital cystic malformation of the lung with nonimmune hydrops and oligohydramnios was diagnosed at 17 weeks by ultrasonography. Massive fetal cardiac compression with probable associated left- and right-sided failure causing both the oligohydramnios and the ascites, respectively, was

Twin anemia-polycythemia sequence (TAPS) is an atypical form of twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) that presents as a large intertwin hemoglobin difference with one twin developing anemia and the other developing polycythemia, without oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios sequence (Lopriore et al.,

Pure fetal blood samples, obtained fetoscopically from 30 patients with unexplained fetal hydrops at 16 to 32 weeks gestation were investigated for cytogenetic, haematological, biochemical and virological properties. In two patients with oligohydramnios, the fetoscope was introduced transabdominally

OBJECTIVE The pathophysiology of oligohydramnios-polyhydramnios in monochorionic (MC) twins complicated by chronic twin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) is poorly understood. We hypothesise that oliguria and oligohydramnios in the donor twin of chronic TTTS, occurs due to antidiuretic and