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Placental Pathology
for the Non-Combatant
Glenn P. Taylor, MD, FRCPC
Division of Pathology, Hospital for Sick Children
Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology
University of Toronto
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Placental Pathology
for the Non-Combatant
Glenn P. Taylor, MD, FRCPC
Slide Image Collection
Seminar Presented at the Annual Meeting
of
The Ontario Association of Pathologists
May 15, 2004
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Acknowledgements
• Dr. Virginia Baldwin University of British Columbia
• Dr. Fergall Magee BC Children’s and Women’s Hospitals
• Dr. Indrojit Roy St. Mary’s Hospital, Montreal
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Goals and Objectives
1. Understand guidelines for appropriate selection of
placentas for pathologic examination; approach the
examination in a systematic and informative way.
2. Recognize a spectrum of common gross
abnormalities and understand their potential clinical
relevance.
3. Identify some less common lesions that are
associated with significant potential for adverse
pregnancy outcome.
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Outline
Introduction
1. Brief Review of Placental Morphology2. Placental Infections
Chorioamnionitis
Villitis3. Vascular Obstructive Lesions
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Outline
4. Infarcts and Impaired Uteroplacental
Perfusion
5. Perivillous Fibrin6. Placental Hematomas
7. Meconium and Other Staining
8. Twin Placentas
Conclusion
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Brief Morphologic Reviewof the
Third Trimester Placenta
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Relevant Placental Morphology
• selection of placentas for examination
• gross examination and morphology of the
placenta• microscopic features of the third trimester
placenta
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Placental Examination
• audit antenatal clinical judgment/management
• uncover unavoidable or unpredictable factors
• reveal potentially recurrent, preventable or treatable conditions
• suggest risk for short or long-term sequelae to
newborn
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Indications for Placental Examination
Fetal
Maternal Placental
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Maternal Conditions
• hypertension/preeclampsia/eclampsia
• diabetes mellitus
• maternal fever/infection• history of repeated pregnancy losses
• maternal substance abuse
• repetitive vaginal bleeding in pregnancy
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Fetal and Neonatal Conditions
• stillbirth or perinatal death
• multiple birth
• congenital anomalies
• fetal growth restriction
• prematurity (<32 weeks)/post maturity (> 42 weeks)
• fetal hydrops
• admission to NICU/severe CNS depression
• suspected infection
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Placental Conditions
• gross abnormality of membranes, cord, or disk
• suspicion of placental abruption
• oligohydramnios
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Placental Examination
unfixed placenta
• amnion/chorion for cytogenetics• subamniotic swab for bacteriology
• viral cultures
• biochemical and molecular analyses
• vascular injection studies (multiple gestation)
• electron microscopy
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Freeze Artifact - Hemolysis
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Gross Examination of Placenta
• membranes
• cord
• disk – fetal surface
– maternal surface
– parenchyma
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Reflected Membranes
• colour and opacity
– blood and/or meconium staining
• nature of insertion• point of rupture
• other abnormalities
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Umbilical Cord
• length and diameter
• insertion
• vessel number • coiling
• abnormalities
– varices, false knots, and true knots – thromboses and hematomas
– others
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False Knot (Varices)
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Chorionic (Fetal) Surface
• colour and opacity
• surface texture
– amnion nodosum• vascular pattern
• thrombi
• plaques• cysts
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Trimmed Placenta
• weight
• dimensions
• contour • accessory lobes
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Circumvallate Extrachorialis
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Accessory Lobe
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Basal (Maternal) Surface
• completeness
• contour
– depressions, bulges
• fibrin and calcification
• infarcts
• hematomas
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Parenchyma
• texture and colour
• fibrinoid
• infarcts• thrombi
• cysts
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Microscopic Examination of Placenta
• membrane roll and distal cord section
• fetal and maternal surfaces, proximal cord
section
• 2 - 3 full thickness sections, paracentral
parenchyma
• additional sections from macroscopic lesions
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Placenta Histology: Cord
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Umbilical Vein
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Umbilical Artery
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Wharton’s Jelly
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Cord Epithelium SquamousAmnion
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Placenta Histology: Membranes
• amnion
• chorion
• chorion laeve• decidua capsularis
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Membranes
Amnion
Chorion
Decidua
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Amnion and Chorion
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Chorion
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Chorion Laeve
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Decidual (Maternal) Vessels
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Placenta Histology: Disk
• chorionic surface
• chorionic villi
• intervillous space• maternal (basal) surface
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Amnion
Chorion
Trophoblast - Fibrin
Chorionic Surface
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Stem Villous
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Intermediate Villous
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Tertiary Villi
Hofbauer Cells
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Maturation of Chorionic Villi
• increase in numbers of terminal villi
• increase in terminal villous capillaries
• decrease in thickness of the VSM
• decrease in the size of terminal villi
• decrease in prominence of cytotrophoblast cells
• increase of syncytial nuclear aggregates (knots)
• increase of villous fibrinoid
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Mid Third Trimester
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Late Third Trimester
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Intervillous Space - Maternal Sickle Cells
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Trophoblast andFibrinoid
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Maternal Surface
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Decidual (Maternal) Plate
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Placental Infections
Chorioamnionitis
Villitis
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Chorioamnionitis(Ascending Infection)
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Routes of Infection
1. maternal
hematogenous
2. direct from
endometrium
3. ascending decidual
infection
4. ascending amniotic
infection
5. iatrogenic
Fox, Pathology of thePlacenta, 2nd Ed.
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Intervillous Space
Amniotic Cavity
Amnion
Chorion
g
Intervillositis(subchorionitis)
g
Chorionitis
g
Chorioamnionitis
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Choriodeciduitis of Reflected Membranes
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Early Chorioamnionitis of Reflected Membranes
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Fetal Response and Consequences
• umbilical cord vasculitis
– funisitis
• chorionic surface vasculitis
– fetal vessel thrombosis
• fetal pneumonia and sepsis
• fetal cerebral injury
– cytokine mediated
– cerebral palsy
• preterm labour and delivery
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Funisitis
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Chorionic Surface Vasculitis
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Ch i i iti Eti l
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Chorioamnionitis - Etiology
• culture negative
• Enterococci
• Group B Streptococcus, anerobic Streptoccus
• E. coli and other enteric bacteria
• Fusobacteria
• polymicrobial (”bacterial vaginosis”) – Gardnerella vaginalis, Mycoplasma homins,
Ureaplasma urealyticum, and others)
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Chorioamnionitis - special cases
• Candida choriamnionitis
• Listeria monocytogenes
• Herpes virus amniotic infection
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Listeria Placentitis
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Take Home Messages
• Acute chorioamnionitis (ascending amniotic
infection) is the most common type of
placental infection (in up to 24% of placentas).
• There is poor correlation with microscopicallydiagnosed chorioamnionitis and clinical
chorioamnionitis, microbiology studies,
neonatal consequences, and even gross placental morphology.
• However, significant neonatal sequelae can
occur, especially in the preterm infant.
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Villitis
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Villitis of Unknown Etiology
• 21 years old primigravida mother
• induction of labour at 37 weeks GA for:
– severe intrauterine growth restriction
– non-reassuring fetal heart rhythm strips
• infant weighed 1850 g, placenta 290 g
– placental weight index: 0.157, expected 0.145
• Apgar scores 81 and 95
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Villitis
• destructive inflammatory process of chorionic
villi
– maternal hematogenous route
• acute (rare) or chronic (common)
• specific etiology (rare) or unknown (common)
• clinically significant or not
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(VUE)
• no etiology identified by clinical, morphological, or microbiological investigations
– diagnosis of exclusion
• 85% of cases
• 3 to 10% of pregnancies
• association with adverse pregnancy outcome
– directly proportional to severity/extent of inflammation
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Histologic Grading of VUE
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Histologic Grading of VUE
Focal
< 5 villi/focus
single focus
1 slide only
Multifocal< 5 villi/focus
multiple slides
Diffuse > 5% of terminal villiaffected
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Pathogenesis of VUE
• occult infection
v.s.
• maternal immunological response
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Clinical Associations of VUE
• intrauterine growth restriction
• ↑ maternal serum α-fetoprotein
• intrauterine fetal death
• preterm delivery
• recurrence in subsequent pregnancies
• toxemia
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CMV Immunohistochemicalstaining
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Plasma Cell Villitis
• cytomegalovirus
• toxoplasmosis
• syphilis
• VUE
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Other Specific Villitides
• varicella/herpes zoster
• herpes simplex
• HIV
• Parvovirus B19
• Listeria monocytogenes
• others…
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Varicella Villitis
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Toxoplasmosis
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Toxoplasmosis
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Basal Chronic Deciduitis/Villitis
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Take Home Messages
• Chronic villitis is the most common type of villous inflammation, seen in up to 10% of placentas.
• The most common form is “villitis of unknown etiology,” a condition that should bedocumented because of its significantassociation with pregnancy complications.
• If plasma cells are present, CMV or other specific infectious etiology should be sought.
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ThrombophiliaVascular Obstructive Lesions
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Pregnancy Complications
• spontaneous abortion
• intrauterine growth restriction
• intrauterine fetal death• severe pre-eclampsia
• abruptio placentae
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Placental Pathology
• intervillous thrombi
• decidual vessel thrombi
• placental infarcts• fibrinoid necrosis of decidual vessels
– placental abruption
• excessive perivillous fibrin deposition
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Fetal Side Vascular Obstruction
• arterial thrombi
– localized or diffuse thrombosis of surface or stem
chorionic villous arteries
– downstream avascular villi
• venous thrombi
– occlusive thrombosis of surface or stem chorionic
villous veins
– intimal fibrin cushions
– “hemorrhagic endovasculopathy”
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Avascular Vili and Perivillous Fibrinoid
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Causes
• antiplatelet antibodies
• anticoagulant factor deficiencies
– protein C – protein S
– antithrombin III
• hypercoagulability states – antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
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Consequences
• intrauterine growth restriction
• intrauterine fetal death
• hydrops fetalis
• neonatal asphyxia
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Chorionic Vein Thrombosis
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Hemorrhagic Endovasculopathy
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Causes
• acute and chronic umbilical cord occlusion
• hydrops fetalis
• maternal diabetes mellitus• antiphospholipid antibody syndrome
• chorioamnionitis with fetal surface vasculitis
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Consequences
• intrauterine fetal death
• perinatal asphyxia
• cerebral injury with cerebral palsy• fetal systemic thromboembolism
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Placental Venous Embolus with Gangrene
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• Maternal and fetal thrombophilia areassociated with vascular obstructive lesions
and poor pregnancy outcome.
• The thrombophilic states may be recurrent,therefore recognition of obstructive lesions in
the various vascular compartments of the
placenta, and their morphologic consequences,can provide important information for
management of future pregnancies.
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Infarcts, Decidual Vasculopathy
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Impaired Uteroplacental Perfusion
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• mother 32 years of age, hypertensive
• term delivery
• placenta 380 g
– 2 peripheral and 3 central discrete parenchymal
lesions
• 15% of placental volume
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Placental Infarct
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Decidual Vasculopathy
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Placental Infarcts
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• impaired perfusion of intervillous space
– abnormal maternal decidual (spiral) arteries
– separation of villous tissue from decidual bed(abruption)
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“Normal” Abnormal
peripheral central
single multiple
< 1.0 cm diameter > 1.0 cm diameter
term placenta premature placenta
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• fibrin deposition
• atherosis
• thrombosis
• fibrosis
• failure of adaptive changes in decidua basalis
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“Adapted” Spiral Artery
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Decidual Vasculopathy
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• Tenney-Parker changes – exaggerated syncytial knots
– small, fibrotic villi
• infarcts
• intervillous thrombi
• placental abruption
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Tenney-Parker Changes
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Severe Maternal PIHNormal
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30 weeks GA - Accelerated Villous Maturation
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• A small infarct at the periphery of a term placenta is common and probablyinsignificant.
• However, multiple infarcts, central infarcts,large infarcts, or infarcts in premature placentas are markers for significant maternalvascular disease, especially hypertension.
• They are associated with significant risk for adverse pregnancy outcome.
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Perivillous Fibrin(oid)
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Excessive Perivillous Fibrinoid
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• diffuse massive perivillous fibrin(oid) – Gitterinfarkt
– > 20% of terminal villi encased in fibrin
• maternal floor infarct – excessive basal fibrinoid deposition forming a
thick “rind” up to 2 cm deep
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Causes/Associations
• unkown
• stasis of intervillous space
– maternal vascular disease
• antiphospholipid antibodies
• maternal hypercoagulable state
• severe chronic villitis
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Perivillous Fibrinoid
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Perivillous Fibrin
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Chronic Villitis and Perivillous Fibrin
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InfarctPerivillous Fibrinoid
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Maternal Floor Infarct
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Maternal Floor Infarct
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Massive Perivillous Fibrinoid
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• placenta small for gestational age
• severe early intrauterine growth restriction
• intrauterine fetal death (up to 50%)• preterm delivery
• miscarriage
• recurrence in subsequent pregnancies (20%)
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• There is a strong association of massive perivillous fibrinoid deposition and poor
pregnancy outcome.
• Identification of this pathology has importantconsequences for prognosis and management
of future pregnancies of the affected mother.
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Placental Hematomas
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Placental Abruption
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• 27 years old primigravida mother • delivery induced at 34 weeks GA for PROM of
1 week and maternal fever
• placenta weighed 420 g, infant weight notreported
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clinical obstetrical syndrome• acute abdominal pain
• abdominal rigidity and tenderness
• per vaginal bleeding
premature separation of the placenta
retroplacental hematoma
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• maternal surface large laminated blood clot – degenerating/organizing
• compression of adjacent placental villous
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• non-organized blood clot +/- adherent• decidual hemorrhage, necrosis, inflammation
• intravillous hemorrhage of adjacent villous
parenchyma
• infarction of adjacent villous parenchyma
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Causes of Placental Abruption
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• maternal hypertension• preeclampsia/eclampsia
• HELLP syndrome
• lupus anticoagulant
• anticardiolipin syndrome
• systemic lupus
erythematosus
• decidual arteriopathy
• maternal diabetes mellitus
• cigarette smoking
• cocaine use
• maternal abdominal trauma
(i.e., MVA)• complication of amniocentesis
• abnormal uterine structure
• chorioamnionitis
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• Retroplacental hematoma is associated withsignificant fetal morbidity and mortality and
with several important maternal disorders.
• Morphologic confirmation of an acute placental abruption may be difficult, but there
are some gross and microscopic clues to help
distinguish delivery-associated clot from true
retroplacental hematoma.
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Meconium and Other Staining
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Intrauterine Meconium Discharge
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• primigravida 26 years old mother • labour at 41 weeks GA
• emergency Cesarean section for FHR of 50/
min• thick meconium covered placenta
• Apgar scores 11 and 810
– first cord pH 6.83
• placenta weighed 365 g
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• placental abruption• umbilical cord compression
• large fetomaternal hemorrhage
• maternal floor infarction
• post maturity
• chorioamnionitis
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• Amnion – degeneration
– necrosis
– ulceration• Umbilical and Chorionic Surface Vessels
– vasospasm
– medial myocyte degeneration – segmental inflammation
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Amniotic Edema
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Normal Amnion Meconium Exposure
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Meconium “venulitis”
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Myocyte Degeneration
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Timing of Meconium Staining
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meconium in
amniotic
macrophages
1 hour
meconium in
chorion4 to 6 hours
meconium in
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Gross Features
• green slimy staining (acute)
• slippery, edematous, dark
membranes (subacute)
• dull, diffuse, muddy
staining (chronic)
Clinical Outcome
• usually normal
• high risk for
– meconium aspiration– perinatal asphyxia
– cerebral palsy
• some infants have CNS
deficits
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Hemosiderin
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• Subchorionic Thrombi• Marginal Premature Separation (abruption)
• Decidual Necrosis
• Chorionic Surface Vessel Bleeding
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• Passage of meconium in utero is not normal, but becomes more “normal” towards term.
• There is a positive association with poor pregnancy
outcome and meconium passage in earlier gestation
and in post mature pregnancies.
• Subacute and chronic meconium exposure has
stronger association with bad outcome than does
acute discharge. These can be distinguishedmorphologically.
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Single Disk Twin Placenta
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Twin Births
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• Caucasian population – 1:80 births
– ~ 30% monozygous (identical)
– ~ 70% dizygous (fraternal)• Black Americans
– 1:70 births
– Noruba in Nigeria 1:20 births
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• Monochorionic-Diamniotic – premature labour and delivery
– twin-twin transfusion syndrome (~15%)
• chronic/acute – polyhydramnios
– shared autolytic products of a dead twin
• Monochorionic-Monoamniotic – as above
– cord entanglement
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Take Home Messages
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• The nature of the separating membranes in asingle disk twin placenta provides a good
indication of zygosity and the potential for
problems with the twin pregnancy.
• Monochorionic placentas have shared vascular
domains, which can cause significant in utero
or perinatal adverse events. Documentation of
the extent and nature of the vascular
anastomoses requires examination of the
placenta in the fresh state.
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this presentation aimed to provide guidance on
• when to look for placental pathology
• how to investigate placental pathologyand
• what placental pathology might be important
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