Preeclampsia is a leading cause of intrauterine growth restriction and preterm birth. Endothelial dysfunction is the common final pathway leading to clinical signs of preeclampsia including ...

Background: Preeclampsia (PE) is a pregnancy-induced syndrome associated with increased maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. The major fetal consequences of PE are intrauterine growth ...

Labor and delivery are complicated biological processes that require careful coordination of multiple signaling pathways. In fact, some studies suggest that preterm births can occur when cross-talk ...

In a recent study posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, researchers investigated passive immunization of the fetus and neonates by evaluating the antibody responses elicited by primary and booster ...

In addition, recent studies on the effect of amniotic fluid on the blood-clotting mechanism 1 have suggested that amniotic fluid entering the maternal circulation in amounts insufficient to cause an ...

A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UTHealth Houston and collaborating institutions reveals that maternal COVID-19 ...

New research in The Journal of Physiology has found, using a mouse model, that microbes in the maternal intestine may contribute to impairment of the gut barrier during pregnancy. Scientists ...

Steiner and Lushbaugh, 1 in 1941, first recognized amniotic-fluid embolism — a syndrome produced by entrance of amniotic-sac contents into the maternal circulation — to be a significant cause of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Black women had higher rates of CV hospitalization, maternal morbidity and maternal mortality than white women ...

Social factors, not biology, explain nearly all racial disparities in maternal heart health CHICAGO --- Research has established a clear link between racial and ethnic disparities in maternal heart ...

Christopher Robinson, MD, MSCR, FACOG: Taking a step back and looking at where we’ve been over the course of the years, if a person had an autoimmune disease, the goal was always to suppress the ...