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Clinical Profile And Predictors Of Mortality In Neonates Born With Non-Immune Hydrops Fetalis: Experience From A Lower-Middle-Income Country, Vinod K. Hasija, Adnan Mirza, Waqar Khowaja, Sidra Asif, Muhammad Sohail Salat, Shabina Ariff, Khalil Ahmad

Department of Paediatrics and Child Health

Introduction: Hydrops fetalis (HF) is a life-threatening condition in which a fetus has an abnormal collection of fluid in the tissue around the lungs, heart, abdomen, or under the skin. Based on its pathophysiology, it is classified into immune and non-immune types. With the widespread use of anti-D immunoglobulin, non-immune HF has become more common, with an incidence of one in 1,700-3,000 live births. A multitude of fetal diseases with various causes can lead to non-immune HF. Due to the recent advances in prenatal diagnostic and therapeutic interventions together with improved neonatal intensive care, the diagnosis and subsequent management of …