“…Ballantyne syndrome, also called mirror syndrome, is characterized by triple edema, including fetal and placental hydrops and maternal edema. 1,2 Other clinical signs include hypertension (in 57-78% of patients), proteinuria (20-56%), pulmonary edema (21%), and intrauterine fetal death (56%), as described in a previous review by Braun et al 1 Triple edema occurs regardless of the etiology underlying fetal hydrops, including rhesus isoimmunization, twin-twin transfusion syndrome, viral infection and fetal malformations, and fetal or placental tumors. 1 As excessive water retention is a cardinal sign of Ballantyne syndrome and as pulmonary edema with dyspnea can be considered as a sign associated with heart failure, aberrant water metabolism may be involved in the pathogenesis leading to altered cardiac morphology as well as function.…”