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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Rev Nephrol. 2019 May;15(5):275–289. doi: 10.1038/s41581-019-0119-6

Fig. 2 ∣. Decidual vasculopathy in a pre-eclamptic placenta.

Fig. 2 ∣

Image showing a sample of the placental bed of the uterus from a patient with decidual vasculopathy in the third trimester that is stained with haematoxylin and eosin. The vessels show chronic injury with endothelial fragmentation and detachment (arrow) as well as fibrinoid necrosis (**) and remodelling (*) of the vessel wall. Adapted from REF.74: The pathology of eclampsia: an autopsy series, Hecht, J. L. et al., Hypertension in Pregnancy, 2017, by permission of the publisher (Taylor & Francis Ltd, http://www.tandfonline.com).