Clinical-pathological features in placentas of pregnancies with SARS-CoV-2 infection and adverse outcome: case series with and without congenital transmission.

Objective: To correlate clinical outcomes to pathology in SARS-CoV-2 infected placentas in stillborn and live-born infants presenting with fetal distress.

Design: Retrospective, observational.

Setting: Nationwide.

Placental Tissue Destruction and Insufficiency From COVID-19 Causes Stillbirth and Neonatal Death From Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury.

Context.—: Perinatal death is an increasingly important problem as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues, but the mechanism of death has been unclear.

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