[Fetal pleural effusions-A case report]

ABSTRACT

Foetal pleural effusion in a rare situation. Diagnosis is normally easy to do by obstetrical sonography. The pleural effusions can be primary, caused by a pleural lymphatic vessels disorder, which have generally a good prognostic. In the other situations, they can be secondary to an other general immune or non-immune disorder. It can be compressive or associated to an hydrops fetalis, and needs in these cases an intra-uterine treatment based on decompression of hydrothorax. We report a case of bilateral pleural effusion diagnosed at nineteen weeks of pregnancy and spontaneously resolved at the 28[th] week. We treat the different clinical aspects of this anomaly and modalities of intra-uterine management