Abstract:The patient was a 29-year multiparous woman, hospitalised in the 25 week of pregnancy because of fetal hydrops (ascites, polyhydramnios, placentomegaly) and cardiomegaly. The results of the physical and laboratory examinations of the mother were initially normal. MCA PSV in the fetus was 1.9 MoM. Diagnostic cordocentesis revealed profound fetal anemia with high erytroblastosis, thrombocytopenia and fetal PVB19 viremia (2.27 × 108 IU/ml). We transfused to the fetal umbilical vein 35 ml of packed red cells and 0… Show more
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