Placental Pathology and Pregnancy Complications

John Kingdom; Jennifer A Hutcheon; Sanne J Gordijn; Dina El-Demellawy; David Grynspan

doi:10.3390/jcm12155053

Placental Pathology and Pregnancy Complications

J Clin Med. 2023 Aug 1;12(15):5053. doi: 10.3390/jcm12155053.

Authors

John Kingdom¹, Jennifer A Hutcheon², Sanne J Gordijn³, Dina El-Demellawy^{4

5}, David Grynspan⁶

Affiliations

¹ Placenta Program, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Division, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 1X5, Canada.
² Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of British Columbia, 4500 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC V6H 2N1, Canada.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Center of Groningen, CB20, Hanzeplein 1, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1H 8M5, Canada.
⁶ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Vernon Jubilee Hospital and University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC V1T 5L2, Canada.

Abstract

Placental pathology assessment following delivery provides an opportunity to identify the presence and type of disease that can mediate major obstetrical complications, especially in cases where the fetus is growth-restricted, born premature, or stillborn, or if the mother suffers from severe hypertensive morbidities [...].

Publication types

Editorial