Of whether placenta complications are genetic, OB/GYN Dr. Mary Jane Minkin tells PEOPLE, "The answer is we really don't know" PEOPLE, Music Writer and Reporter While placental abruption and placenta ...

Placenta previa is when a pregnant person's placenta blocks the opening to the cervix that allows the baby to be born. It can cause severe bleeding during pregnancy and delivery. Mothers with placenta ...

“It didn’t hit me that this could potentially be problematic,” Courtney Nowak, of Staten Island, NY remembers thinking. She had just had a routine sonogram at 13 weeks and her doctor had drawn her a ...

In women, the placenta, a sac-like organ, develops inside the uterus to provide oxygen and supply nutrition to the baby in the womb. Placenta previa is a condition in which the placenta covers or ...

Vasa previa is a rare complication that can occur during pregnancy. It happens when some of the blood vessels that connect your baby's umbilical cord to your placenta cross over, or near, the opening ...

Women diagnosed with placenta previa early in their pregnancy should be careful that the discovery doesn’t steal the joy they have for the upcoming birth of their child. Placenta previa is a condition ...

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Ruptured vasa previa is rare but usually catastrophic if delivery is not imminent. We present a case of ruptured vasa previa in velamentous cord insertion placenta. The fetus survived despite 6 h of a ...

Placenta previa occurs when the placenta covers the opening of the cervix during the last months of pregnancy. This condition can cause severe bleeding before or during labor. The placenta develops in ...