HydroPsFetalIs.org
Title
Hydrops fetalis with polymalformative syndrome
Description
Our site is the result of one year spent looking for information about causes of non-immune hydrops and abnormalities-related in order to try to find out the truth. Unfortunately, almost all of the Web sites we could find on fetal hydrops were of little use to anyone outside the scientific community. Anyway, if you do not understand the reference list here below, you can show it to your physician who assured you that he had already done everything possible to help you in your quest...
This pathological condition which occurs rarely (about 1/3,000 pregnancies) is only the consequence of many heterogeneous disorders, some of them are well known such as cardiovascular malformations, chromosomal abnormalities and some congenital infections but most of them remain poorly understood or they are so rare that a physician do not even consider carrying out appropriate investigation. Multiple congenital anomalies can also be associated with hydrops, though the mechanism is obscure for everything except cardiac anomalies.
Until the advent of RhoGam vaccine, the most common cause of hydrops fetalis was blood group isoimmunization, usually involving the Rhesus blood group antigens. The success of isoimmunization prevention programs has been such that most cases of hydrops fetalis are now nonimmune or related to secondary blood-group antigens such as C, E & Kell Antigens.
Languages
English
Contact
- Laurence Petit
- Brossard Qc
- Canada J4Z3E1
- +1.5149533580