Chaur-Dong Hsu

TL;DR: It is reported that co-transcription of ACE2 and TMPRSS2 is negligible in the placenta, thus not a likely path of vertical transmission for SARS-CoV-2.

TL;DR: Fetal anemia caused by parvovirus infection can be detected noninvasively by Doppler ultrasonography on the basis of an increase in the peak velocity of systolic blood flow in the middle cerebral artery.

TL;DR: Dramatic increases in both VEGF levels and macrophage numbers in the decidua during early pregnancy compared to the secretory phase endometrium (non-pregnant), with a significant increase in M2macrophage markers, suggesting that M2 is the predominant macrophages phenotype in thedecidua.

TL;DR: This monograph serves to review in detail the diagnosis and management of several acute maternal complications of preeclampsia: eClampsia, HELLP (hemolysis, elevated liver enzymes, low platelets) syndrome, liver rupture, pulmonary edema, renal failure, disseminated intravascular coagulopathy (DIC), hypertensive emergency, and hypertensive encephalopathy and cortical blindness.

TL;DR: Most placentas had lesions consistent with inflammatory or vascular lesions, but severe and/or high-burden lesions were infrequent, and Mild placental lesions may be interpreted as acute changes associated with parturition or as representative of a subclinical pathological process that did not affect the clinical course of pregnancy.