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Hope for Prevention?

April 26, 2017Hope prevention

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Hope for Prevention?

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Studying placentas could provide the insight into cerebral palsy that the medical community has been looking for. He is now tracking a large group of live born infants whose placentas showed thrombi in the fetal circulation to determine what fraction of those infants ultimately develop cerebral palsy. If he finds a strong correlation between thrombi in the placenta and the development of cerebral palsy, Dr. Kraus’s research may offer hope to a significant population of women at risk for coagulopathies that could threaten their children.