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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Dev Pathol. 2021 Apr 19;24(4):337–350. doi: 10.1177/10935266211008444

Table 1.

Key Variable Definitions.

Variable Lesions Includeda Definition
Acute inflammation Maternal: acute subchorionitis, acute chorionitis, acute amnionitis, acute necrotizing chorioamnionitis
Fetal: acute chorionic vasculitis, phlebitis, arteritis/panvasculitis, funisitis
High-grade High stage maternal and/or fetal, based on Amsterdam Criteria
Low-grade Low-stage maternal and/or fetal, based on Amsterdam Criteria
None No acute inflammatory lesions
Chronic inflammation Membranes/chorionic plate: chronic chorionitis, chronic amnionitis
Basal plate: chronic deciduitis with plasma cells, chronic decidual perivasculitis
Villi: villitis, intravillous plasma cells
Intervillous space: chronic intervillositis
Fetal: chronic eosin/t-cell vasculitis, chronic fetal inflammation- not specified
High-grade ≥2 compartments with chronic inflammation
Low-grade 1 compartment with chronic inflammation
None 0 compartments with chronic inflammation (no chronic inflammatory lesions)
Fetal vascular malperfusion Thrombi or intramural fibrin deposition in chorionic vessel, velamentous vessel, stem villous vessel, and/or umbilical vessel; avascular villi/villous stromal vascular karyorrhexis High-grade High grade FVM or fetal thrombotic vasculopathy, defined as more than one focus of avascular villi (≥45 villi) or two or more occlusive or nonocclusive thrombi in the chorionic plate or stem villi, or multiple nonocclusive thrombi
Low-grade Any fetal vascular lesions, not indicated as high grade
None No fetal vascular lesions
Maternal vascular malperfusion 1 point: fibrinoid necrosis/acute atherosis, muscularization of basal plate arterioles, mural hypertrophy of membrane arterioles, basal decidual vascular thrombus, single infarct, increased syncytial knots, villous agglutination, increased perivillous fibrin deposition, distal villous hypoplasia, retroplacental blood/hematoma
2 points: multiple infarcts, retroplacental hematoma with hemosiderin or infarct, placental hypoplasiab
High-grade Score of ≥4
Low-grade Score of 2–3
None Score of 0–1
Other significant pathology Hemosiderosis, massive perivillous fibrin deposition, myonecrosis, amnion nodosum, delayed villous maturation, chorangiosis, isolated SGA placenta (placental hypoplasia) Not graded Presence of ≥1 lesion
a

See Table S1 for specific lesion definitions.

b

Placental hypoplasia only considered in the presence of ≥1 maternal vascular lesion (isolated placental hypoplasia not scored).