In the case of a placental abruption, the placenta partially or totally disconnects before delivery. This is a medical emergency. Though it’s rare, occurring in only around 1% of pregnancies ...

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MPS was defined in the index delivery hospitalisation as any diagnosis of gestational hypertension, pre-eclampsia, placental abruption and/or placental infarction, using the ICD-9 coding system up to ...

Background: Efforts to elucidate risk factors for placental abruption are imperative due to the severity of complications it produces for both mother and fetus, and its contribution to preterm birth.

An NHS trust has admitted it failed to provide safe treatment and care to three babies who died within months of each other.

Preterm birth (PTB) continues to pose a challenge in neonatal medicine, and it is the major cause of perinatal morbidity and ...

shifting cases of placental abruption toward a lower median gestational age at delivery, but we do not anticipate this shift to be biased by maternal race. Finally, because the racial distribution ...

Many authors of this review have collaborated with Dr. Hans Bohn, the discoverer of Placental Protein 13 (PP13), who passed away on January 25, 2014. We dedicate this manuscript to his memory. His ...

Preterm, especially early-onset preeclampsia generally has a more severe clinical presentation in the mother and is more often associated with the delivery of a growth-restricted neonate than term or ...

I can’t speak for everyone who has given birth, but I stand in awe of animals who managed to deliver a baby and go right back ...

Preeclampsia in pregnancy is a condition characterized by high blood pressure and high protein in the urine during pregnancy or right after delivery. It usually develops after 20 weeks of pregnancy.