Mirror Syndrome

 

Mirror Syndrome 

1892 – First Description

·         The condition was first described by John William Ballantyne, a Scottish obstetrician.

·         He reported cases of “triple edema” in pregnant women:

1.       Maternal edema (swelling in the mother)

2.       Fetal edema (hydrops fetalis)

3.       Placental edema (placentomegaly)

·         Because the maternal symptoms “mirrored” the fetal condition, it later came to be called 

Mirror Syndrome.

Mirror Syndrome remains a rare but significant obstetric condition

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