Table 1.
Key Variable Definitions.
Variable | Lesions Includeda | Definition | |
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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 |
See Table S1 for specific lesion definitions.
Placental hypoplasia only considered in the presence of ≥1 maternal vascular lesion (isolated placental hypoplasia not scored).