INTRODUCTION Endolymphatic hydrops, the histopathological substrate of Ménière's disease, is an almost universal finding in postmortem studies of patients with this disease. The cause of hydrops is still unknown, as is the mechanism by which it causes progressive dysfunction of the sensory organs of inner ear. The fluctuating course of the disease complicates the interpretation of certain tests...

The removal of massive tissue tumors often leads to rapid blood loss and decreased lung compliance because of large volume shifts. Cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) have both been used as a means of support during resection of saccrococcygeal teratomas. Hydrops fetalis is the accumulation of fluid in extravascular spaces and body cavities. This leads to...

Non-immune hydrops fetalis is a relatively rare and complex disorder that requires detailed investigation and coordinated management by a multidisciplinary team. There is a lack of clear advice in the literature on the immediate management and investigation of neonatal hydrops. The approach described here has been used in our unit and has been welcomed, particularly by resident staff. Hydrops f...

Parvovirus B19 is a well-established cause of fetal anemia and nonimmune fetal hydrops in pregnancy. Fetal parvovirus infection can cause severe destruction of erythroid progenitor cells, resulting in fetal anemia, hydrops, and intrauterine death. However, viral myocarditis with subsequent heart failure is another possible mechanism for hydrops formation as viral infection of fetal myocardial c...

We describe cases of hydrops fetalis associated with nondeletional alpha-thalassemia (alpha-thal), in three unrelated Indonesian families. The genotypes of the fetuses and their parents were generated by DNA sequencing and by a polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP)-based method to rapidly identify mutations detected by sequencing. Two of the fetuses had h...

Since the development of specific MRI sequences for evaluation endolymphatic hydrops (EH), an objective radiological method assessment intralabyrinthine changes is available (Nakashima et al. 2007).