Placenta and perinatal brain injury: the gateway to individualized therapeutics and precision neonatal medicine

Lauren L Jantzie1,2,3, Shenandoah Robinson4,5

  • 1Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Children's Center, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Pediatric Research
|February 15, 2020
PubMed

Wu and colleagues analyzed the placental pathology from a subset of the neonates in the NEATO trial who had reports available and correlated the placental pathology findings with outcomes. This study highlights the importance of placental pathology, and its potential to bring precision medicine to critically-ill neonates. Placental pathology will likely aid stratification of neonates for clinical trials and accelerate progress for neurorepair.