Journal of perinatal medicine
Maternal circulating sFlt-1/placental growth factor is a biomarker of fetal death associated with placental lesions of maternal vascular malperfusion.
Tinnakorn Chaiworapongsa, Roberto Romero, Elizabeth M McClure, Shivaprasad Goudar, Manjunath Somannavar, Shiyam Sunder Tikmani, Sarah Saleem, Najia Ghanchi, Imran Ahmed, Afia Zafar, Sanyukta Patil, Sunilkumar Bk, Yogeshkumar S, Jean Kim, Janet Moore
Published: 202610.1515/jpm-2025-0624
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Fetal death is a major pregnancy complication, with rates of 5.5 per 1,000 births in the United States and substantially higher in India (24.7/1,000) and Pakistan (44.5/1,000). Maternal vascular malperfusion (MVM) is the most frequent pla…
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