Inferior vena cava thrombosis presenting as non‐immune hydrops in the fetus of a woman with diabetes

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Successful outcome of an idiopathic thrombosis of the fetal inferior vena cava

“…Our study shows that abnormal uterine bleeding tends to recur with time. Henriquez et al reported that recurrence is especially common in premenopausal women 9 . Because we evaluated only symptomatic cases, our data do not allow any conclusions about the management of endometrial polyps diagnosed incidentally at ultrasound examination in women without abnormal uterine bleeding.…”

“…No maternal causes of the thrombosis 1 -8 , which account for 58% of cases 6 , were found. There was no coagulopathy 6 , maternal or fetal infection, Type 1 or gestational diabetes mellitus 9 , hypertension prior to pregnancy or pre-eclampsia. Linthoudt et al 10 suggests that congenital anomalies of the IVC may favor thrombosis; an embryological anomaly of anastomosis between two segments of the IVC could lead to the formation of a thrombus, and subsequently to the development of a collateral network.…”

Prenatal Diagnosis of Renal Vein Thrombosis: A Case Report and Literature Review

“…In all cases, the prenatal diagnosis was made by ultrasonography, and 4 cases underwent postnatal angiography or venography to confirm the diagnosis [6,10,21,24]. Prenatal diagnosis was suspected by findings consistent with renal enlargement, renal size discrepancy, hyperechoic streaks, abnormal renal vein Doppler study and loss of corticomedullary differentiation.…”

“…Five cases, including our case, received thrombolytic/anticoagulation treatment after birth [6,19,21,24]. Bleeding of the adrenal cortex occurred in 1 neonate who received a combination of tissue plasminogen activator and unfractionated heparin [6].…”

“…We excluded 46 papers in which the RVT was diagnosed postnatally. Thus, 21 articles describing 22 cases of prenatally diagnosed RVT were included in the present study [2,3,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. Of these pregnancies, 19 were singleton and 3 were twin pregnancies.…”