Placenta accreta spectrum (PAS) used to be a rare pregnancy condition, but it now affects roughly 14,000 pregnancies annually ...

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has significantly affected the global healthcare sector ...

A procedure can preserve fertility and potentially save the lives of women with a serious pregnancy complication called placenta accreta. Results of the new study showed that placement of balloons in ...

Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify maternal ...

Dr. Gil Mor discusses sex-specific placental responses and long-term immune alterations from prenatal virus exposure.

SINCE statements of neither the day of conception nor the date of the last menstruation are usually reliable, most physicians consider an infant weighing less than 2.5 kg. (5/2 pounds) to be premature ...

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In pregnancies complicated by fetal congenital heart disease, global placental perfusion was significantly decreased and regional variation of placental perfusion significantly increased as ...

As far as organs go, the placenta isn't exactly the most popular kid in the cafeteria. It's usually thrown away after the baby is born, a rather inauspicious ending for an organ that's toiled for nine ...

Astrud Tuck receives funding from the Channel 7 Children's Research Foundation. An incredibly complex and important organ in its own right, the placenta is only found in mammals. And how it functions ...

Our study results suggest that adverse obstetric conditions are either associated with placental growth restriction or placental hypertrophy, but not both. This implies that the placenta may have ...