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 ...

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

Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and placenta -- and not the mother's ...

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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 ...

Significant advances are occurring in placental MRI – particularly the development of texture analysis, machine learning and radiomic approaches – and the time is now ripe for systematic and detailed ...

"Placenta abnormalities can be serious, life-threatening medical obstetrical complications," Dr. Michael Krychman, Sexual Medicine Gynecologist, Executive Director of the Southern California Center ...

The role of the placenta in fetal development is being seriously under-appreciated according to scientists. A team studied 103 mutations linked to prenatal death in mice and showed that almost 70 ...

Damage to the placenta -- the organ that nourishes the fetus -- occurs in about 10% of all births, and is even more common in pregnancies involving older women or assisted reproduction. Using a ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, researchers performed a prospective case–control study in pregnant women with confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). They ...