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- Title
Clinical significance of pregnancies with succenturiate lobes of placenta.
- Authors
Suzuki, Shunji; Igarashi, Miwa
- Abstract
This study examined the clinical significance of patients complicated by succenturiate lobes of placenta in comparison with patients with normal placenta. Data were collected from 47 patients complicated by succenturiate lobes of placenta and from 7,666 unaffected controls. The frequency of maternal age ≥35 years and history of using in vitro fertilization in patients complicated by succenturiate lobes of placenta were significantly higher than those in control patients ( P < 0.01). In addition, the incidence of non-reassuring fetal status, vasa previa, postpartum hemorrhage and retained placenta in the study group were significantly higher than those in control ( P < 0.01). These results support the adverse obstetric outcomes in pregnancies with succenturiate lobes of placenta and may suggest the pathogenesis of these placental shape aberrations associated with assisted reproductive technology.
- Subjects
PLACENTA; FERTILIZATION in vitro; REPRODUCTIVE technology; HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Archives of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2008, Vol 277, Issue 4, p299
- ISSN
0932-0067
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00404-007-0482-6