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Judi Lynn

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Tue May 26, 2020, 04:35 AM May 2020

COVID-19 appears to attack the placenta in pregnant women

By Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSN
May 26 2020

Pregnant women should take extra precautions amid the coronavirus pandemic. A new study shows that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), attacks the placenta.

The researchers from Northwestern University in Chicago aimed to identify the histopathologic findings of women with COVID-19 during pregnancy. They found that the placentas of women infected with severe SARS-CoV-2 have higher rates of placental injury.

Published in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology, the study revealed that there is evidence of insufficient blood flow from the mother to the fetus and blood clot formation in the placenta.

"Most of these babies were delivered full-term after otherwise normal pregnancies, so you wouldn't expect to find anything wrong with the placentas, but this virus appears to be inducing some injury in the placenta," Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein, assistant professor of pathology at Northwestern University and study author, said in a statement.

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https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200526/COVID-19-appears-to-attack-the-placenta-in-pregnant-women.aspx

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Whew, finally now the pro-lifers will wear masks. nilram May 2020 #1
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