SINCE statements of neither the day of conception nor the date of the last menstruation are usually reliable, most physicians consider an infant weighing less than 2.5 kg. (5/2 pounds) to be premature ...

In pregnancies complicated by fetal congenital heart disease, global placental perfusion was significantly decreased and regional variation of placental perfusion significantly increased as ...

Yale researchers have shown that developmental abnormalities, including those that lead to pregnancy loss and autism, are controlled by the genetics of the fetus and placenta -- and not the mother's ...

Among babies with severe congenital heart disease (CHD), neurological abnormalities tended to cluster in those who had been exposed to some placental pathology while still in the womb, a single-center ...

The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has significantly affected the global healthcare sector ...

"Placenta abnormalities can be serious, life-threatening medical obstetrical complications," Dr. Michael Krychman, Sexual Medicine Gynecologist, Executive Director of the Southern California Center ...

Significant advances are occurring in placental MRI – particularly the development of texture analysis, machine learning and radiomic approaches – and the time is now ripe for systematic and detailed ...

Background: Previous studies of maternal risk factors for abnormal placental growth have focused on placental weight and placental ratio as measures of placental growth. We sought to identify maternal ...

Damage to the placenta -- the organ that nourishes the fetus -- occurs in about 10% of all births, and is even more common in pregnancies involving older women or assisted reproduction. Using a ...

Before SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, there was the Zika virus epidemic, lasting from 2015 to 2016. The Zika virus can cause serious birth defects and abnormalities. During the epidemic, one of the most ...