Tag Lony C. Castro

Clinical Keys for this Chapter ▪ In this chapter, the term hydrops fetalis refers to immune (or rhesus [Rh] antibody-mediated) hydrops fetalis and is synonymous with the older term erythroblastosis fetalis. Hydrops fetalis is a form of in utero heart…

Clinical Keys for This Chapter ▪ Preeclampsia (sometimes called toxemia of pregnancy ) is a multisystem disorder that is thought to arise as a consequence of inadequate cytotrophoblastic invasion of the spiral uterine arteries and failure to establish the normal…