Morphofunctional peculiarities of the placenta in women with undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia syndrome

Abstract

The aim: The impact of undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia on the formation of the placenta. Materials and methods: The morphostructure of 50 placentas with the undifferentiated connective tissue syndrome and 50 placentas of women with physiological pregnancy and absence of connective tissue pathology was studied. Results: The results of morphological studies have shown that the main pathogenetic link of placental dysfunction with highly resistant blood flow in the umbilical arteries in pregnant women with undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia syndrome is a disorder of functional differentiation of the villous tree.In these cases the dominats were large and medium-sized villi with narrowed lumen in arterial, venular and capillary vessels and arterial spasm and venous plethora, as well as with numerous chaotically sclerosed villi, indicating stage I and II of placental. There is a large amount of fibrins in intervillous space which narrows it and leads to violation of microcirculation and placenta tissue hypoxia. Conclusions: The morphological basis of high flow resistance in the umbilical artery with the undifferentiated connective tissue dysplasia syndrome in pregnant women is a pathological immaturity of the placental villous tree. Morphological study of the architecture of the stem and intermediate placental villi revealed a violation of the structure of collagen fibers in the form of lack of crosslinks of bundles of collagen fibers.