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Abstract #2568

First in vivo demonstration of venous return in the human placenta

George Hutchinson1, Neele Dellschaft1, Simon Shah2, Nia Jones3, Lopa Leach4, and Penny Gowland1
1SPMIC, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 2Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, 3Queens Medical Centre, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 4School of Life Sciences, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom

Little is known about maternal venous return from the placenta, despite the fact this good venous drainage is critical for adequate flow into, and percolation through the placenta. In this abstract we aim to identify and characterise venous return by identifying regions of blood flowing across the placental wall, and we find similar velocities of blood flow entering and leaving the placenta.

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