Proponents of eating the placenta say the practice has benefits — but there are risks, too. Here's what you need to know.

The majority of patients assessed in the study did not receive the VTE prevention bundle developed specifically for their ...

Special care must be taken with illnesses during pregnancy, as not all drugs are safe for mother and child. This is why an ...

The small intestine is not the only organ lined with villi. There is another type called chorionic villi that lines the lumen of the placenta. Chorionic villi surround a developing fetus during ...

The placenta has two different sides, the maternal side and the fetal side. These are held together by outgrowths, called anchoring villi, from the maternal component. The placenta is surrounded by a ...

Abstract: Placental terminal villi have always been the focus of placental pathology research, and the automatic and precise segmentation of placental terminal villi can effectively assist doctors in ...

During the test, a small sample of cells (called chorionic villi) is taken from the placenta where it attaches to the wall of the uterus. Chorionic villi are tiny parts of the placenta that are ...

His team found that most of the miscarriages were marked by dysmorphic chorionic villi (DCV), a category that includes abnormal placental folds. Kliman’s team also found about a third of ...

In the human placenta, there are placental villi, and the surface of the villi consists of syncytiotrophoblast, also called barrier cells, that serve as the main barrier against foreign substances.

Villi in the human placenta help form the barrier and are surrounded by a layer of cells called trophoblasts. Because the structural nature of villi is critical for its function, cell lines and other ...

Preeclampsia is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy characterized by chronic placental ischemia and suppression of proangiogenic proteins, causing oxidative stress, hypertension, and maternal ...

Placenta accreta or abnormal attachment of the placenta. The villi of the placenta are attached to the uterine muscles instead of in the maternal pools of blood in the intervillous spaces.