Polyhydramnios occurs in 1-2% of pregnancies and may be idiopathic in more than half of the cases. The diagnosis of idiopathic polyhydramnios can be made only in the absence of maternal diabetes, fetal anomalies, aneuploidies, multiple gestation, Rh incompatibility, placental tumours and non-immune hydrops. Rarely, idiopathic polyhydramnios may be recurrent in future pregnancies and sometimes n...

OBJECTIVES To study perinatal outcome in idiopathic polyhydramnios. METHODS Case-control study was conducted in 500 pregnant women with idiopathic polyhydramnios (study group) and 500 normal pregnant women (control group) attending the outpatient department of SHKM Medical College, Haryana. Perinatal outcomes were recorded in both the groups. RESULTS Out of 500 cases with idiopathic polyhyd...

Background: Incidence of polyhydramnios in various studies has been reported from 0.2 to 3.9%. Approximately, 50-60% of cases are idiopathic with no known etiology. We aimed to investigate perinatal outcomes of idiopathic polyhydramnios with a normal ultrasound. Materials and Methods: In this study, Persian and English databases including Barakatkns, SID, Magiran, Medline, Science Direct, Scopu...

INDIAN PEDIATRICS 746 VOLUME 41__JULY 17, 2004 dystrophy as a significant cause of idiopathic polyhydramnios. They suggested that all women having polyhydramnios with either a family history of myotonic dystrophy or ultrasonographic evidence of fetal hypotonia, including positional abnormalities of extremities should be offered DNA testing. It appears that prenatal ventriculomegaly may also be ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the proportion and type of fetal anomalies that are associated with polyhydramnios and to examine whether in cases with idiopathic polyhydramnios during the course of pregnancy and fetal anomalies only diagnosed after birth, antenatal characteristics differ. METHODS This was a retrospective study involving all pregnancies with polyhydramnios defined by a deepest pool ...

AIM To evaluate the frequency and the quantity of polyhydramnios attributable to diabetes in pregnancy. METHODS The charts of patients with a four-quadrant amniotic fluid index (AFI) ≥ 20 cm and either a diagnosis of diabetes or a diabetes screening test during the index pregnancy were retrospectively reviewed. AFI was stratified into 5 categories and the frequency of diabetes was evaluated f...