Placenta percreta is the most severe form of abnormal placental attachment. It is a variant of placenta accreta in which chorionic villi penetrate the entire thickness of the myometrium through the uterine serosa and may involve the adjacent structures. Literature review shows very few cases encountered during the first trimester of pregnancy. A-20-year-old woman with previous one cesarean sect...

A 41-year-old woman presented to the surgical suite with an undiagnosed placenta percreta invading the bladder. The patient lost 16,000 mL of blood before the hemorrhage was surgically controlled, and a successful cesarean delivery, as well as a total abdominal hysterectomy, were performed. Ultimately, the patient was discharged 1 week later with a healthy baby. Unlike placenta accreta where th...

Introduction: The placenta is the influencing factor on fetal weight and as first organ that reveals pathological changes of pregnancy. Therefore, placental ultrasound findings influence diagnosis growth restriction (FGR). Objectives: This study examines relationship between thickness, grading heterogeneity during pathology in third trimester FGR fetuses its effect neonatal outcome. Patients Me...

Spontaneous uterine rupture due to placenta percreta in the second trimester is extremely rare and difficult to manage. A 26-year old pregnant woman at 27 gestational weeks with a history of two previous cesarean sections admitted to our center because of abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding. Ultrasound examination revealed placenta previa with moderate amount of intraperitoneal fluid. The borde...

he in utero environment and its impact on neonatal health are of increasing interest in relation to adult health outcomes.1,2 There is a growing body of evidence that birth weight and placental insufficiency are important risk factors for later development of the so-called metabolic syndrome: hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease.3 The placenta is the principal influence on fetal b...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Scant consideration has been given to the variation in structure of the human amniotic membrane (AM) at source or to the significance such differences might have on its clinical transparency. Therefore, we applied our experience of quantifying corneal transparency to AM. METHODS Following elective caesarean, AM from areas of the fetal sac distal and proximal (ie, adjacent) to ...

UNLABELLED Previous studies have shown that morphine abuse during pregnancy cancause a delay in the development of the placenta and embryo and also bring about birth defects. The present study investigates the effect of the duration of maternal morphine consumption during pregnancy, as well as the impacts of morphine abuse on the development of placental layers during the three different period...

Belachew, J. 2015. Retained Placenta and Postpartum Haemorrhage. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1077. 59 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9182-6. The aim was to explore the possibility to diagnose retained placental tissue and other placental complications with 3D ultrasound and to investigate the impact of previ...

The human placenta, a complex organ, which facilitates exchange between the fetus and the mother, contains abundant extracellular matrix (ECM) components and well-preserved endogenous growth factors. In this study, we designed a new dermal substitute from human placentas for full-thickness wound healing. Highly porous, decellularized ECM sheets were fabricated from human placentas via homogeniz...