Eoghan E. Mooney

TL;DR: The group agreed on sets of uniform sampling criteria, placental gross descriptors, pathologic terminologies, and diagnostic criteria for placental lesions, which will assist in international comparability of clinicopathologic and scientific studies and assist in refining the significance of lesions associated with adverse pregnancy and later health outcomes.

TL;DR: The upregulation of soluble vascular endothelial growth factor receptor and Hypoxia-inducible factor 2alpha at this period in pregnancy indicate that placental angiogenesis is altered in IUGR and that hypoxia is a major contributor to maldevelopment of the placental vasculature.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates an association between maternal diabetes and increased terminal villous volume and capillary volume and length is increased in the placentae of normally grown infants of T1DM diabetic mothers compared to non-diabetic controls, suggesting that factors other than glycaemia have a role in placental development in pre-gestational diabetes.

TL;DR: This was a retrospective study investigating all pregnancies with DVM diagnosed on placental histology in a tertiary level unit between December 2001 and August 2006 and found DVM was significantly associated with pregestational diabetes mellitus and with perinatal death.

TL;DR: It is suggested that parvovirus infection of cardiac myocytes may play a more important role in causing hydrops fetalis than previously realized and that maceration should not discourage the use of electron microscopy.