Suspected Fetal Growth Restriction at 37 Weeks: A Comparison of Doppler and Placental Pathology

Table 5

Occurrence of individual placental abnormality by Doppler cohort in suspected FGR.

	Abnormal Doppler	Normal Doppler
Placental weight < 5th percentile	22	18
Placental configuration abnormality	4	8
Cord problem	12	10
Infarcts	15	6
Abruption	1	0
Intervillous thrombus > 5%	1	0
Increased pervillous fibrin	7	4
Subchorionic thrombus excessive	2	1
Increased syncytial knots	1	3
Villous agglutination	3	2
Distal villous hypoplasia	0	1
Decidual atherosis	2	0
Hypertrophy membrane arterioles	0	1
Muscularization of basal plate arteries	2	0
Avascular terminal villi	0	1
Large villus intimal fibrin cushion	0	1
Chorangiosis	1	1
VUE	3	0

FGR = fetal growth restriction.
includes succenturiate lobe, circummarginate, or circumvallate membrane insertion.
includes thin cord, marginal or velamentous insertion, and single umbilical artery.