TY - JOUR
T1 - Etiology of nonimmune hydrops fetalis
T2 - A systematic review
AU - Bellini, Carlo
AU - Hennekam, Raoul C M
AU - Fulcheri, Ezio
AU - Rutigliani, Mariangela
AU - Morcaldi, Guido
AU - Boccardo, Francesco
AU - Bonioli, Eugenio
PY - 2009/5
Y1 - 2009/5
N2 - Hydrops fetalis (HF) indicates excessive fluid accumulation within the fetal extravascular compartments and body cavities. HF is not a diagnosis in itself but a symptom, and the end-stage of a wide variety of disorders. In the era before routine immunization of Rhesus (Rh) negative mothers, most cases of hydrops were due to erythroblastosis from Rh alloimmunization, but nowadays, nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) is more frequent, representing 76-87% of all described HF cases. We performed a systematic review of the pertinent literature based on the QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses (QUOROM) recommendations, using a QUOROM flowchart and QUOROM checklist. At initial screening 33,345 articles were retrieved. The various inclusion and exclusion criteria aimed at obtaining data that were as unbiased yet as complete as possible decreased the numbers dramatically, and eventually a total of 225 relevant NIHF articles were identified, describing 6,361 individuals. We established 14 different diagnostic categories and provide the pathophysiologic background of each, if known. All 6,361 patients were subclassi- fied into one of the following diagnostic categories: Cardiovascular (21.7%), hematologic (10.4%), chromosomal (13.4%), syndromic (4.4%), lymphatic dysplasia (5.7%), inborn errors of metabolism (1.1%), infections (6.7%), thoracic (6.0%), urinary tract malformations (2.3%), extra thoracic tumors (0.7%), TTTF-placental (5.6%), gastrointestinal (0.5%), miscellaneous (3.7%), and idiopathic (17.8%).
AB - Hydrops fetalis (HF) indicates excessive fluid accumulation within the fetal extravascular compartments and body cavities. HF is not a diagnosis in itself but a symptom, and the end-stage of a wide variety of disorders. In the era before routine immunization of Rhesus (Rh) negative mothers, most cases of hydrops were due to erythroblastosis from Rh alloimmunization, but nowadays, nonimmune hydrops fetalis (NIHF) is more frequent, representing 76-87% of all described HF cases. We performed a systematic review of the pertinent literature based on the QUality Of Reporting Of Meta-analyses (QUOROM) recommendations, using a QUOROM flowchart and QUOROM checklist. At initial screening 33,345 articles were retrieved. The various inclusion and exclusion criteria aimed at obtaining data that were as unbiased yet as complete as possible decreased the numbers dramatically, and eventually a total of 225 relevant NIHF articles were identified, describing 6,361 individuals. We established 14 different diagnostic categories and provide the pathophysiologic background of each, if known. All 6,361 patients were subclassi- fied into one of the following diagnostic categories: Cardiovascular (21.7%), hematologic (10.4%), chromosomal (13.4%), syndromic (4.4%), lymphatic dysplasia (5.7%), inborn errors of metabolism (1.1%), infections (6.7%), thoracic (6.0%), urinary tract malformations (2.3%), extra thoracic tumors (0.7%), TTTF-placental (5.6%), gastrointestinal (0.5%), miscellaneous (3.7%), and idiopathic (17.8%).
KW - Classification
KW - Etiology; pathophysiology
KW - Flowchart
KW - Hydrops fetalis
KW - Nonimmune hydrops fetalis
KW - Systematic review
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U2 - 10.1002/ajmg.a.32655
DO - 10.1002/ajmg.a.32655
M3 - Article
C2 - 19334091
AN - SCOPUS:66849099873
VL - 149
SP - 844
EP - 851
JO - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
JF - American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A
SN - 1552-4825
IS - 5
ER -