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Pleuro-amniotic shunting for fetal chylothorax
P Booth1, K H Nicolaides, A Greenough
1Department of Child Health, King's College School of Medicine and Dentistry, Denmark Hill, London, U.K.
Early Human Development
|November 1, 1987
The immediate neonatal course of two babies with gross hydrops fetalis, associated with chylothorax, is compared. One fetus managed by antenatal insertion of a pleuro-amniotic shunt had no evidence of pleural effusion at birth and required less resuscitation.
The immediate neonatal course of two babies with gross hydrops fetalis, associated with chylothorax, is compared. One fetus managed by antenatal insertion of a pleuro-amniotic shunt had no evidence of pleural effusion at birth and required less resuscitation.