COVID-19 influence on placental pathology
This review is dedicated to the problem of novel infectious disease COVID-19 and its influence on placental pathology. The results of contemporary scientific studies describing visual and laboratory confirmation of presence of SARS - CoV - 2 in placental tissues are noted. It is stated that women with confirmed COVID - 19 present with specific placental lesions confirming maternal and fetal malperfusion. The most common pathological placental findings are decidual vasculopathy, atherosis and fibrinoid necrosis, mural hypertrophy of membrane arterioles, chorangiosis, intramural fibrin deposition, and intervillous thrombi.