Placental abruption occurs when the placenta, the tube that sends oxygen and nutrients to your baby during pregnancy, detaches from your uterine wall. This is a medical emergency requiring immediate ...

Medically reviewed by Renita White, MD Key Takeaways Placental abruption can be mild, moderate, or severe, and is considered ...

Placental abruption, also known as abruptio placentae or abruption of placenta, is a sudden and potentially life-threatening condition that can occur during pregnancy. Though relatively rare, it ...

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology – A stillbirth occurs when a baby is born without any signs of life. Placental pathology is found to be related to the cause of death in a significant number of ...

About one million pregnancies in the United States end in miscarriage each year. Additionally, about 20,000 end at or after 20 weeks of pregnancy in stillbirth, with about 50% of these cases ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A woman has had a smooth pregnancy all along; she keenly adhered to clinic visits, an ...

When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The autopsy, which pushed Parast to pursue perinatal ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. When Mana Parast was a medical resident in 2003, she had an experience that would change the course of her entire career: her first fetal autopsy. The ...