Background: Impaired trophoblast invasion is suggested as the main cause of reduced placental perfusion, which results in fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia...
Keywords: Doppler, placenta, preeclampsia, pregnancy, recurrence, uterine artery
09/2004 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Objective: Fetal hypoxia and preterm delivery are reported to be strongly associated with brain damage and neurodevelopmental delay...
Keywords: Brain damage, Doppler velocimetry, fetus, Interleukin-6, placenta, tumor necrosis factor-?
01/2005 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Objective: Intrinsically poor maternal adaptation to pregnancy and dysregulated processes have been postulated to occur as a consequence of an immune response to the feto-placental unit as “foreign” material...
Keywords: Immune, in vitro fertilization, pathology, placenta, pregnancy outcomes
01/2005 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Background: Doppler ultrasound examination has become an established method of clinical surveillance in high-risk pregnancies...
Keywords: Brain-sparing, Doppler, fetus, middle cerebral artery, placenta, pregnancy
08/2006 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Objectives: To analyse the inter-observer and inter-artery reliability of the umbilical artery (UA) pulsatility index (PI) at different sampling sites.
Methods: One hundred consecutive singleton pregnancies between 24 and 40 weeks were included...
Keywords: circulation, Doppler, fetus, placenta, reliability analysis, umbilical artery
10/2006 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Aims: Both acute placental inflammation and positive mid-gestational cervico-vaginal fetal fibronectin assays have been independently correlated with preterm delivery...
Keywords: Chorioamnionitis, fetal fibronectin, infection, placenta, preterm birth
02/2007 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Objective: To evaluate the relation between placental proximity and frequency of birth weight discordance and small-for-gestational age (SGA) infants.
Study design: Retrospective three-tier chorionicity analysis of 1155 twin placentas comparing birth weight characteristics of the twins in different placental types.
Results: Dichorionic-separate, but not dichorionic-fused twins, are heavier than monochorionic-diamniotic and monoamniotic twins (2376±721 vs...
Keywords: Birth weight, chorionicity, discordance, placenta, Twins
04/2006 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter
Aims: Our objective was to elucidate the pathogenesis of twin discordance in four dizygotic pregnancies where only one of the twins had IUGR due to chronic villitis.
Methods: We identified four cases of dizygotic twin placentas over a period of four years with evidence of chronic villitis...
Keywords: Dizygotic, fetus, IUGR, maternal immunologic rejection, placenta, twin, villitis
07/2008 | Journal of Perinatal Medicine, Walter de Gruyter