Placental abruption causes
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Causes[1][2]
- The exact cause of placental abruption may be hard to determine, But some factors may raise a woman’s risk for it:
- History of placental abruption in a previous pregnancy
- Long-term high blood pressure
- Sudden high blood pressure in pregnant women who had normal blood pressure in the past
- Heart disease
- Smoking
- drugs like Alcohol or cocaine use
- twins pregnancy or more
- Being older than 35
- Direct causes are rare, but include:
- Injury to the belly area (abdomen) from a fall, hit to the abdomen, or automobile accident
- Sudden loss of uterine volume (can occur with rapid loss of amniotic fluid or after a first twin is delivered)
References
References
- ↑ Anderson E, Raja EA, Shetty A, Gissler M, Gatt M, Bhattacharya S; et al. (2020). “Changing risk factors for placental abruption: A case crossover study using routinely collected data from Finland, Malta and Aberdeen”. PLoS One. 15 (6): e0233641. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0233641. PMC 7289359 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 32525937 Check|pmid=value (help). - ↑ Workalemahu T, Enquobahrie DA, Gelaye B, Thornton TA, Tekola-Ayele F, Sanchez SE; et al. (2018). “Abruptio placentae risk and genetic variations in mitochondrial biogenesis and oxidative phosphorylation: replication of a candidate gene association study”. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 219 (6): 617.e1–617.e17. doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2018.08.042. PMC 6497388. PMID 30194050.
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