OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of maternal cigarette smoking on placental histology in women with abruption. STUDY DESIGN Data were derived from the New Jersey-Placental Abruption Study (NJ-PAS)--an ongoing, case-control study, conducted since August 2002 in 2 large hospitals in NJ. Abruption cases were identified based on a clinical diagnosis. Histologic evalu...

The authors examined associations between cumulative smoking during a woman's first and second pregnancies and risk of placental abruption in the second pregnancy. They performed a population-based prospective cohort study of 526,690 women who delivered their first two consecutive singletons in Sweden in 1983-2001. Using logistic regression models, the authors found that, among women without pl...

Background: Trauma is one of the main causes of maternal mortality and morbidity in societies, which annually causes millions of deaths worldwide and imposes a high financial burden on health facilities, the purpose of this study was to determine the frequency of physical trauma and its associated factors during pregnancy. Methods: All data for this cross-sectional study were collected from me...

BACKGROUND Data on extreme obesity and placental abruption are scarce. This study aimed to determine the association between pre-pregnancy weight and placental abruption and whether pregnancy weight gain impacts this risk. METHODS We used the Missouri maternally linked cohort files (years 1989-1997). Analyses were restricted to singleton live births (n = 461 729). Maternal body mass index (BM...

The authors examined associations between cumulative smoking during a woman’s first and second pregnancies and risk of placental abruption in the second pregnancy. They performed a population-based prospective cohort study of 526,690 women who delivered their first two consecutive singletons in Sweden in 1983–2001. Using logistic regression models, the authors found that, among women without pl...

BACKGROUND Several studies have assessed the risks of uteroplacental bleeding disorders in relation to maternal characteristics. The association between uteroplacental bleeding disorders and paternal characteristics, however, has received considerably less attention. Data on paternal demographics, notably race and age, from birth certificate data are becoming increasingly incomplete in recent y...

Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) treatment has been recommended for pregnant women with previous adverse pregnancy and who were diagnosed as having a thrombophilia. We now examined the effect of LMWH on pregnant women without thrombophilias who had severe pregnancy complications and placental vasculopathy in an earlier pregnancy. Seventy-two women with a history of severe preeclampsia, fetal...

Case report A 32-year-old woman in her ® fth pregnancy presented at 28 weeks’ gestation with a signi® cant, painless, antepartum haemorrhage (APH). She reported intermittent uterine tightenings and backache over the previous week. Routine ultrasound at 20 weeks’ gestation had shown the placenta to be clear of the cervical os and she had no antenatal problems of note. She was a non-smoker and ha...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to examine the association between placental abruption, maternal characteristics, and routine first- and second-trimester aneuploidy screening analytes. STUDY DESIGN The study consisted of an analysis of 1017 women with and 136,898 women without placental abruption who had first- and second-trimester prenatal screening results, linked birth certificate...

We aimed at describing placental abruption in our county and evaluating factors associated with poor fetal outcome. In this case-control study, women were identified from two databases of Brest University Hospital between January 2013 December 2018. Placental histological findings, course pregnancies, maternal characteristics described compared cases (placental stillbirth or neonatal death) con...