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Comment
. 2020 Apr;87(5):807-808.
doi: 10.1038/s41390-020-0807-8. Epub 2020 Feb 14.

Placenta and perinatal brain injury: the gateway to individualized therapeutics and precision neonatal medicine

Lauren L Jantzie  1   2   3 , Shenandoah Robinson  4   5
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Placenta and perinatal brain injury: the gateway to individualized therapeutics and precision neonatal medicine

Lauren L Jantzie et al. Pediatr Res. 2020 Apr.

Abstract

Wu and colleagues analyzed the placental pathology from a subset of the neonates in the NEATO trial who had reports available and correlated the placental pathology findings with outcomes. This study highlights the importance of placental pathology, and its potential to bring precision medicine to critically-ill neonates. Placental pathology will likely aid stratification of neonates for clinical trials and accelerate progress for neurorepair.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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