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In utero intravesicular pressure and the prune belly syndrome
M T Cullen1, A P Athanassiadis, P Grannum
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Fetal Therapy
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
The pathogenesis of the prune belly syndrome is unclear. The proposed etiologies include a distal obstructive uropathy or a mesodermal defect of the anterior abdominal wall and urinary tract. Detection of increased intravesicular pressure might identify those fetuses with an obstructive etiology who, therefore, would benefit from shunting.