Placenta

Placenta from a Case of Placenta Prævia

I-7: Maternal Signalling to the Placenta

Background: Though it is well established that maternal blood-borne signals influence highly the growth of the placenta, the mechanisms are not known. In vitro trophoblast culture models are limited by an inability to reconstruct the polarised bilayer of the human hemochorial placenta. We have used a first trimester villous tissue explant system to investigate how growth factors interact with p...

Fatty Placenta

Dr Cairns said he had seen the placenta loaded with fat, and the child nevertheless healthy; whereas, in other cases, the afterbirth was apparently free from disease, and the child was still-born. He had never found much benefit from the chlorate of potass. He mentioned a case in which much good resulted from a mercurial course to both father and mother, and he was of opinion that blue pill was...

Placenta previa

OBJECTIVES To review cases of placenta previa in the last 13 years in a tertiary teaching hospital to identify risk factors for maternal morbidity.  METHODS A retrospective analysis of all cases of placenta previa managed at King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH), Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from January 2001 to December 2013.    RESULTS The total number of deliveries was 55,862 deli...

Placenta Prævia

Sir,?The translation of the article of Drs. G. Di Cristana and G. Caronia in the May 15th number of the Journal of Tropical Medicine, reporting the successful treatment of the Mediterranean form of kala-azar by means of tartar emetic intravenously, lias just reached India. I, therefore, write to place on record the fact that I had previously commenced precisely similar treatment of the Indian f...