Silvia Alongi, Laura Lambicchi, Francesca Moltrasio, Valentina Alice Botto, Davide Paolo Bernasconi, Maria Serena Cuttin, Giuseppe Paterlini, Silvia Malguzzi, Anna Locatelli
INTRODUCTION: Placentas of term infants with birth asphyxia are reported to have more lesion such as maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM), fetal vascular malperfusion (FVM) and chorioamnionitis with fetal response (FIR) than those of term infants without birth asphyxia. We compared the placental pathology of asphyxiated newborns, including those who developed hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), with non-asphyxiated controls. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective case-control study of placentas from neonates with a gestational age ≥ 35 weeks, a birthweight ≥ 1,800 g, and no malformations...
2023: Front Clin Diabetes Healthc