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cord-300627-7x4me5lx	Ng, W. F.	The placentas of patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome: a pathophysiological evaluation	2006-06-30		.txt	text/plain	4396	293	57	Summary Aims The pathology of the placentas delivered from pregnant women who had severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in Hong Kong was studied. In three placentas delivered in the acute stage of SARS, there were increases in intervillous or subchorionic fibrin which might be related to disturbances in maternal placental blood flow due to the hypoxic respiratory disease. Extensive fetal thrombotic vasculopathy (FTV) with sharply demarcated zones of avascular fibrotic villi was noted in the placentas of two patients convalescent from SARS in the third trimester. Wong also showed that pregnant SARS patients had a higher rate of respiratory failure and drew an analogy with the more severe clinical course of epidemic influenza in pregnant women. This study was undertaken to examine the pathology of the placentas delivered from women who contracted SARS during pregnancy and to correlate the findings with the clinical and obstetric course and the neonatal outcome.	./cache/cord-300627-7x4me5lx.txt	./txt/cord-300627-7x4me5lx.txt