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. 2022 Apr;157(1):208-209.
doi: 10.1002/ijgo.14025. Epub 2021 Nov 22.

The association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and late pregnancy loss

Yael Ganor Paz  1   2 , Sivan Shiloh  1 , Tal Brosh-Nissimov  2   3 , Daniel Grupel  2   3 , Nadav Sorek  2   4 , Talia Kustin  5   6 , Adi Stern  5   6 , Marina Maklakovsky  2   7 , Mia Polak  2   7 , Merav Sharvit  1   2 , Ortal Neeman  1   2 , Tal Ben Valid  1 , Josef Tovbin  1   2 , Eran Barzilay  1   2
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The association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and late pregnancy loss

Yael Ganor Paz et al. Int J Gynaecol Obstet. 2022 Apr.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; intrauterine fetal death; late missed abortion; late pregnancy loss; stillbirth; transplacental transmission; vertical transmission.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest.

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FIGURE 1
Placental pathology case of IUFD at 25 weeks of gestation depicting perivillous fibrin deposition and villous agglutination. A positive CD68 immunostain in histiocytes at ×4 magnification (a) and ×20 magnification (b). H&E at x4 (c) and x20 magnification (d).
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