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Successful treatment of primary fetal hydrothorax with a double basket catheter
Masakatsu Sase1, Ichiro Miwa, Keiko Hasegawa
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yamaguchi University School of Medicine, Ube, Japan.
Abstract:
Fetal pleural effusions can sometimes be detected before birth with ultrasonography. Intervention may be warranted when there is a condition that results in hydroplastic lung and/or fetal hydrops. A 22-week-old fetus with a severe pleural effusion and hydrops was successfully treated by long-term pleural drainage with a double basket catheter from 22 to 39 weeks of gestation.
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