Morphological characteristics of the placenta in infectious lesions
The need for early diagnosis of congenital infections is due to the high incidence of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal period. Morphological study of the placenta has great practical value for the diagnosis of congenital infections in fetuses. It allows optimizing the supervision of newborns and preventing the development of severe perinatal complications. Comprehensive assessment of the course of pregnancy in combination with morphological examination of the placenta are important in predicting the condition of the newborns, the formation of risk groups, and prevention and treatment of children. In case of antenatal death of the fetus, the afterbirth becomes one of the main sources for diagnosing infection and determining the death causes. The review describes the morphofunctional changes in the placenta in infectious lesions, detected using various techniques in relation to practice of pediatricians and infectious disease specialists.