Background: Pregnancy related acute renal injury is a challenging diagnosis, mainly due to, among other factors, the physiological decrease in blood nitrogen retention parameters. As a consequence, the criteria required to establish the diagnosis may be first met as a result of the complications that appear, especially hypertension. The maternal and fetal complications which may occur in pregnancies with renal failure can be worsened by the relative immunodeficiency during pregnancy, which represents an elusive mechanism that is associated with a high risk of urinary tract infection (UTI).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Being associated with a systemic infection, SARS-CoV-2 affects multiple organs, including the placenta. SARS-CoV-2 placentitis is a new condition that shows the destructive effects of fibrin deposition in the perivillous area, chronic histiocytic intervillositis and trophoblast necrosis after the placenta is infected with SARS-CoV-2. Until now, there have been no published reports regarding the ultrasound signs of massive perivillous fibrin deposition and the recommended monitoring for these cases.
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