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Aetiology of non-immune hydrops: the value of echocardiography
Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb07897.x
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BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Volume 93, Issue 3, pages 223–225, March 1986
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ALLAN, L. D., CRAWFORD, D. C., SHERIDAN, R. and CHAPMAN, M. G. (1986), Aetiology of non-immune hydrops: the value of echocardiography. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 93: 223–225. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb07897.x
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- Issue published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Article first published online: 23 AUG 2005
- Received 18 June 1985, Accepted 30 October 1985
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Summary. Forty-eight pregnancies, five of them multiple, were referred for fetal cardiac assessment following the detection of non-immune hydrops fetalis; there were 52 hydropic fetuses in total. A cardiovascular aetiology was found in 21 of these 52 (40%); structural heart disease was present in 13, tachyarrhythmia in the remaining eight. The accurate delineation of these causes was possible using fetal echo-cardiography, and enabled rational management to be instituted. This included termination of pregnancy, pharmacological control of arrhythmias and appropriate timing of delivery.