Oral Presentation Society of Obstetric Medicine of Australia and New Zealand and Australasian Diabetes in Pregnancy Society Joint Scientific Meeting 2017

Session outline:

This hands on session with fixed placentas, and selected photomicrographs, aims to demonstrate common or important pathologies that occur in the placenta that may have implications for the mother or baby.

Objectives:

At the end of this session you should be able to:

1. Teacher others a systemic approach to placental assessment
2. Discuss the approach taken to detecting abnormalities in the placenta
3. Identify common macroscopic abnormalities found in the placenta and be able to discuss their significance
4. Define, and discuss, the importance of the following terms:
   1. chorioamnionitis (grading and staging)
   2. chronic villitis
   3. chronic intervillositis
   4. maternal floor infarction/ massive perivllous fibrin deposition
   5. intervillous thrombus
   6. fetal vascular malperfusion
   7. maternal vascular malperfusion

reference: http://www.archivesofpathology.org/doi/pdf/10.5858/arpa.2015-0225-CC

Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2016;140:698–713