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Placental infarction is defined as an area of ischaemic coagulative necrosis of the placental parenchyma. It is one of the most common lesions identified during pathological examination of the placenta and is a key pathological marker of maternal vascular malperfusion. It is a common placental finding in some of the most important complications of pregnancy, including preeclampsia, fetal growth restriction and pregnancy loss.

In this chapter the gross appearance of placental infarction is described, and an outline is provided of the microscopic features seen in infarcts of varying age.

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  1. Department of Pathology, Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland

    Brendan Fitzgerald

  2. Department of Pathology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

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  1. Department of Anatomical Pathology, Women’s and Children’s Hospital, North Adelaide, SA, Australia

    T. Yee Khong

  2. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin, Ireland

    Eoghan E. Mooney

  3. Department of Pathology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Peter G. J. Nikkels

  4. Department of Pathology, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA

    Terry K. Morgan

  5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

    Sanne J. Gordijn

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Fitzgerald, B. (2019). Infarction. In: Khong, T., Mooney, E., Nikkels, P., Morgan, T., Gordijn, S. (eds) Pathology of the Placenta. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97214-5_6

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