Although pregnancies in Turner syndrome are widely accepted to be associated with small for gestational age foetuses, neither the causal role of placental insufficiency nor the contribution of ...

Asma Khalil, Professor of Obstetrics and Maternal Fetal Medicine at St George’s ... affects 10 to 15% of identical twins that share a placenta (monochorionic twins). 'If left untreated, you ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate total circulating PlGF (placental growth factor) and free PlGF concentrations to provide insights into the mechanisms of decreased PlGF noted in ...

The chance of parent and fetal blood mixing is highest at birth. It can also happen during the third trimester because of the growing placenta and the thinning ... Complications and serious side ...

“There are two sides, so I like to point out which is the fetal side and which is the maternal side. You can also look for the ‘tree of life,’ which is the network of veins that run across the surface ...

The findings raise concerns about risks to fetal development ... Getty Scientists found microplastics in every single sample of placenta tissue examined in a recent study The type of plastic ...

Methods: Placentae from the term, not in labor Cesareans deliveries, were used for this study, and placental specimens were sampled randomly from the fetal side. We developed a protocol for the ...

The right hemisphere controls the left side of the body, and the left half controls the right side of the body. The two halves communicate with one another through a large, C-shaped structure of white ...

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences ...

Traditionally, insulin therapy has been considered the gold standard for management because of its efficacy in achieving tight glucose control and the fact that it does not cross the placenta.

Thus, Vitamin D signaling is important for normal placental function and fetal growth. This review discusses the association of Vitamin D with fetal growth, the function of Vitamin D and its receptor ...