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Pathologic features of the placenta in women with severe pregnancy complications and thrombophilia
Pathologic features of the placenta in women with severe pregnancy complications and thrombophilia
- Source :
- Obstetrics & Gynecology. 98:1041-1044
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2001.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVE: To compare placental pathology between women with and without thrombophilia who had severe preeclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation, severe abruptio placentae, or stillbirth. METHODS: After delivery, 68 women with singleton pregnancies with one of the above complications were evaluated for an inherited thrombophilia: factor V Leiden, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase and prothrombin gene mutation, and deficiencies of protein S, protein C, and antithrombin III. Thirty-two women were thrombophilic (group A), and 36 women were not (group B). There was no difference in maternal age, parity, and type of pregnancy complication. A single pathologist examined each placenta. RESULTS: The gestational age at delivery, birth weight, and placental weight were significantly lower in group A. Three parameters showed significant differences between the groups: thrombophilic women had a higher number of villous infarcts (P < .01), more multiple infarcts (P < .05), and a higher incidence of placentas with fibrinoid necrosis of decidual vessels (P < .05). CONCLUSION: Placentas of women with severe complications and thrombophilia have an increased rate of vascular lesions.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Placenta Diseases
Birth weight
Thrombophilia
Severity of Illness Index
Preeclampsia
Pregnancy
Placenta
medicine
Factor V Leiden
Humans
Fibrinoid necrosis
reproductive and urinary physiology
Gynecology
Obstetrics
business.industry
Pregnancy Complications, Hematologic
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Gestational age
medicine.disease
medicine.anatomical_structure
Female
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00297844
- Volume :
- 98
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....34820ccfb8a7a18c526ab721bd42ca9e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0029-7844(01)01621-0