Carlo Bellini, Gloria Donarini, Dario Paladini, Maria Grazia Calevo, Tommaso Bellini, Luca A Ramenghi, Raoul C Hennekam
Hydrops fetalis is an excessive fluid accumulation within the fetal extra vascular compartments and body cavities. Non-immune hydrops fetalis (NIHF), due to causes other than Rh alloimmunization, is the cause in >85% of all affected individuals. Herein we present an update of our earlier systematic literature review [Bellini et al., 2009] using all publications between 2007 and 2013. We excluded most of the initial 31,783 papers by using strict selection criteria, thus resulting in 24 relevant NIHF publications describing 1,338 individuals with NIHF...
May 2015: American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A