T. Hitschold et al., BLOOD-FLOW VELOCITY WAVE-FORMS IN THE UTE ROPLACENTAL ARTERIES - CORRELATION WITH PLACENTAL MORPHOLOGY IN PREECLAMPSIA, Zeitschrift fur Geburtshilfe und Perinatologie, 199(1), 1995, pp. 8-12
Within a group of preeclamptic women we found severe histologic placen
tal pathology with functional relevance when both the uteroplacental a
nd fetoplacental flow velocity waveforms showed elevated resistance in
dices. These pathological findings were a reduced decidual area, infar
ction and villus maturation failures with a high rate of intrauterine
growth retardation, acidosis and premature delivery. In cases with nor
mal flow velocity waveforms these pathologic findings were much rarer
although the patients were preeclamptic, too.