The bearings of the 16 pregnant women with COVID-19 were monks and showed some changes that indicated abnormal blood flow through this vital organ for the fetus. For doctors, it is a sign to monitor more women infected with coronavirus in silence.
Information published in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology relates to pathological studies performed on the placenta of mothers with COVID. Evaluation of the 16 organs that act as the fetal lung, gut, kidney and liver, taking oxygen and nutrients from the mother's bloodstream and receiving waste products, revealed thatthey were affected by abnormal blood flow.
Bearings under control
Examination of the placenta was performed shortly after birth and showed the presence of lesions, indicative of abnormal blood flow between mothers and their babies developing in the uterus. According to doctors, this could be a new complication of COVID-19. Its discovery will allow better monitoring of future mothers suffering from coronavirus infection.
According to the specialists signing the survey, fifteen of the surveyed patients gave birth to live infants in the third trimester of pregnancy, and one patient miscarried in the second trimester. The pregnancies of the women who gave birth to he althy babies proceeded normally, and no one expected anything bad to happen to their placenta. Meanwhile, changes were found in them.
Changes and clots in the placenta
The placenta hadtwo typical abnormalitiesi: indicated insufficient blood flow from mother to fetus caused by the defect in the mother's blood vessels and blood clots in the placenta, called intervertebral clots. The babies were born he althy, but many of the placentas were smaller than they should have been, indicating that blood flow in the placenta was blocked.
"We have a theory that patients with COVID-19 have problems with clotting and blood vessel damage. Coronavirus tends to form clots in the placenta, said Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Experts say women with COVID should be monitored more closely in terms of blood flow, oxygen supply, and fetal growth.
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