Placenta Previa and Placenta Percreta Patients During the Third Trimester

In the hospital, blood tests are routinely taken preoperatively from patients hospitalized for placenta percreata and preavia. Blood samples of patients who do not have exclusion criteria and who agree to participate in the study will also be studied from routinely collected blood samples. During the hospitalization of these patients for delivery, following the clamping of the umbilical cord after the birth of the baby (after the bond between the mother and the baby is terminated), 2 ml (one teaspoon) of blood sample will be taken from the cord blood, centrifuged and the serum sample will be separated and stored at -80 degrees. A 3x3 cm piece will be taken from the umbilical cord and placenta (the baby's mate), which will be disposed of as medical waste in the postnatal process, covering all layers. The tissue samples will be placed in a container with 10% formol and preserved. At the time of umbilical cord blood and placenta sampling, these tissues are in a waste state and have no connection with the baby and mother, so there is no harm to the mother or baby during sampling. Tissues (placenta, umbilical cord) and 2 ml (one teaspoon) of blood sample from umbilical cord blood will be taken, centrifuged and serum sample will be separated and stored at -80 degrees Celsius to be used in other similar studies and projects planned to be carried out in the future.

Patients to be selected for the control group will be determined according to the exclusion criteria and will be selected with a similar gestational week and gravida number as the case group (In other studies in the literature, control group patients were collected using this similarity). If the patients selected for the control group give birth at term, tissue samples will be taken. Umbilical cord blood will be collected and stored at -80 and included in the study.

If the patient selected for the control group gives birth prematurely, gives birth in an external center or requests to withdraw from the study, the patient will be excluded from the study.

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy pregnancy under 37 weeks
• Age range 18-50
• Being literate in Turkish
• Not having any additional disease
• Agreeing to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• High-risk pregnancies (gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, HELLP syndrome, chronic hypertension, gestational and pregestational diabetes, cholestasis, intrauterine growth retardation, etc.)

• Multiple pregnancy
• Pregnant women under the age of 18
• Smoking
• Medication use (excluding routinely used food supplements during pregnancy)
• Additional disease (thyroid, renal failure, liver failure, hepatitis, heart disease, connective tissue disease, etc.)
• Immunosuppressive use
• Presence of active or chronic infection
• Presence of active or chronic inflammatory disease
• Patients who gave birth at an external center or later chose to withdraw from the study
• Patients who did not have any exclusion criteria at the time of Placenta percrata/ placenta previa or when blood was drawn for the control group, but who later developed any exclusion criteria.
• Premature birth of patients included in the control group