The Placenta in a Case of Thromboembolism and Covid-19

Abstract

Patient of 37 years old at the 36 weeks of pregnancy with A1298C mutated heterocigote thrombophilia, NK cells, tobacco habit during ten years and cesarean section who received treatment for pulmonary thromboembolism, infection by SARS-CoV-2 and whose pregnancy was disrupted by to present oligohidramnios. The placenta was obtained for their study with light microscope. Destructive villitis, endothelial damage of vessels in stromal region of villi, fibrotic villi, syncytial damage, debris of villi are observed in the intervillous space and virocytes were found during the analysis. The placenta has been found with severe degenerative changes which motivated a rigorous or comprehensive structural study.