Fetal vascular malperfusion and other placental lesions in relation to maternal SARS-CoV-2 exposure: a case–control study
Irene Mwandoto, Marleen Temmerman, Ingrid Gichere, Patricia Okiro · 2026
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Irene Mwandoto and co-authors examine placentas after COVID-19 exposure in a 2026 study. Fetal vascular malperfusion is a pattern of blocked fetal blood flow in the placenta, linked to growth problems and worse. The team studied two hundred thirty-four placentas from a Nairobi hospital, thirty-three with that pattern and the rest without.
About fourteen percent of placentas showed the pattern. Mothers who tested positive for the virus appeared in both groups, and the link fell short of statistical firmness. Extra blood vessel growth, a possible low-oxygen sign, appeared often. Readers get a cautious result: no proven tie, but larger studies are warranted.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Irene Mwandoto, Marleen Temmerman, Ingrid Gichere, Patricia Okiro |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 42 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |