Too many to list: When a fetus accumulates excessive fluid in one or more tissues;skin, heart coverings, lungs, abdomen, amniotic fluid, the term hydrops is used. It is commonly associated with events that cause profound fetal anemia and can be on an immune basis after a viral infection or blood incompatibility. However, more than 60 non-immune disorders have been associated with the label.
Answered 11/28/2012
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Hydrops fetalis : Hydrops fetalis is the condition, when the baby's body is swollen from multiple reasons. It can be immune or non-immune. Common cases of non-immune hydrops are cardiac and chromosomal abnormalities. There are no prevention exist to this condition. I would refer you to the following link where you can read more about this condition: http://www.Perinatology.Com/conditions/hydrops.Htm.
Answered 10/4/2016
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