Coronavirus 'injures' placenta in infected pregnant women, study finds - TODAYShow
That said, all of the full-term babies in the study tested negative for the coronavirus and were doing well when they left the hospital."There are specialized arteries on the maternal side that give blood to the placenta, and what we're showing is that there are some problems with the way those vessels are shaped, and then we see injury to those blood vessels," Dr. Jeff Goldstein, a perinatal pathologist at Northwestern Medicine and co-author of the study, told TODAY.
Of the 16 mothers, 15 had live births, all 15 were infected during the third trimester. The remaining mother, who was asymptomatic, had a miscarriage at 16 weeks, but it's unclear if this was related to her COVID-19 diagnosis, Goldstein said. This study did not look at whether the stage of pregnancy during infection plays a role in severity of illness, and that question still remains unanswered.
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