Placental abruption happens when the placenta detaches from the uterine wall during pregnancy. It is a medical emergency.

Placental Abruption Signs and Symptoms Placental abruption affects about 1% of pregnant women. It can occur at any time after 20 weeks of pregnancy, but it’s most common in the third trimester.

Learn what placental insufficiency is, including how to detect and treat it.

The placenta never fails to amaze. The conventions that we take for granted as required for the normal formation and function of other organs are often flouted by placental trophoblasts, the ...

The placenta – the major driver of changes in insulin physiology in pregnancy – is likely a key source of hormones involved in the development of gestational diabetes.

Learn more about the role of the placenta in providing the fetal tissue with antibodies required for the passive immunization in newborns.

Physician-scientists argue that with most placentas discarded after birth, placental pathology is underutilized clinically, should be a routine part of obstetric and neonatal care, and also ...

THE pathogenesis of hypofibrinogenemia associated with placental abruption continues to be a subject of much conjecture. The most commonly proposed explanation has been intravascular coagulation ...

New study in Reproductive Sciences identifies placental diseases as the likely cause for 99% of unexplained pregnancy losses, shedding light on miscarriages and stillbirths. The research suggests ...

Their integrated datasets revealed that placental signatures may help predict which preterm labor episodes lead to parturition. Maternal-fetal communication across the placenta is important for many ...

Disruption of placental Hofbauer cell function caused by prenatal infection or preterm birth may increase the risk for depression and cardiovascular disease in adulthood.