Temporal heterogeneity of placental segmental fetal vascular malperfusion: timing but not etiopathogenesis
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Temporal heterogeneity of placental segmental fetal vascular malperfusion: timing but not etiopathogenesis Jerzy Stanek 1 Received: 18 February 2020 / Revised: 13 July 2020 / Accepted: 19 August 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract Clinicopathologic correlations of segmental villous avascularity and other histological lesions of segmental fetal vascular malperfusion (SFVM) were analyzed retrospectively to determine whether lesions of various durations reflect different etiopathogeneses. The frequencies of 25 independent clinical and 43 placental phenotypes were statistically compared by ANOVA or Chi-square among 3 groups containing a total of 378 placentas with SFVM: group 1 contained 44 cases of recent SFVM (endothelial fragmentation, villous hypovascularity by CD34 immunostain, and/or stromal vascular karyorrhexis); group 2 contained 264 cases of established SFVM (clusters of avascular villi); and group 3 contained 70 cases of remote SFVM (villous mineralization). Statistically significant differences among the three study groups (p Bonferroni < 0.002) were found in four clinical variables (gestational age, frequencies of macerated stillbirth, induction of labor, and cesarean section) and in five placental variables (frequencies of fetal vascular ectasia, stem vessel luminal vascular abnormalities, diffusely increased extracellular matrix in chorionic villi, chorionic disk extravillous trophoblast microcysts, and excessive extravillous trophoblasts in the chorionic disc). In summary, the absence of statistically significant differences between the study groups regarding the most common causes of SFVM (hypertensive conditions of pregnancy, diabetes mellitus, fetal anomalies, and clinical and pathological features of umbilical cord compromise) is evidence that the three types of SFVM reflect temporal heterogeneity rather than etiopathogenesis. This evidence can be used to date the onset of fetal vascular malperfusion before delivery or stillbirth. The coexistence of different SVFM lesions of various durations indicates ongoing or repeat occurrences of FVM rather than single episodes. Keywords Endothelial fragmentation . Fetal vascular malperfusion . Mineralization . Placenta . Stillbirth . Temporal heterogeneity . Umbilical cord
Introduction Fetal vascular malperfusion (FVM) is a well-known subtype of a postuterine pattern of chronic hypoxic placental
Presented at the Fall Meeting of the Society for Pediatric Pathology in Pittsburgh, PA, October 17-19, 2019 This article is part of the Topical Collection on Quality in Pathology Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-020-02916-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Jerzy Stanek [email protected] 1
Division of Pathology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45255, USA
injury [1] that can be associated with complicated perinatal outcome and remote neonatal and
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