The placenta is a dynamic interface organ that regulates nutrient and gas exchange, hormone production and immunological protection for the developing fetus. Pathological alterations in placental ...
Placental pathology reports contain valuable information that can influence maternal and neonatal health care however they are not always readily available to clinicians. While clinicians value ...
In an opinion article publishing September 18 in the Cell Press journal Trends in Molecular Medicine, physician-scientists argue that with most placentas discarded after birth, placental pathology is ...
Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center ...
About one million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage each year. Additionally, about 20,000 end at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy in stillbirth, with about 50% of these cases ...
This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...
When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal ...
NORTHFIELD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unvaccinated pregnant women risk delivering stillborn babies due to placental failure caused by COVID-19 infection, which destroys the placenta and deprives the ...
Physician-scientists argue that with most placentas discarded after birth, placental pathology is underutilized clinically, should be a routine part of obstetric and neonatal care, and also deserves ...