Do the physiological aging of the placenta and the changes in angiogenesis marker sFlt-1 and PlGF concentrations predispose patients to late-onset preeclampsia?

Do the physiological aging of the placenta and the changes in angiogenesis marker sFlt-1 and PlGF concentrations predispose patients to late-onset preeclampsia?

Kwiatkowski, Sebastian;Dołęgowska, Barbara;Kwiatkowska, Ewa;Rzepka, Rafał;Marczuk, Natalia;Loj, Beata;Mikolajek-Bedner, Wioletta;Torbe, Andrzej;
the journal of maternal-fetal & neonatal medicine : the official journal of the european association of perinatal medicine, the federation of asia and oceania perinatal societies, the interna 2019 Vol. 32 pp. 11-20
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Aging of the placenta is associated with natural processes that impair its functions. The processes are related to both oxidative stress exacerbation and the occurrence of higher concentrations of disordered angiogenesis markers. Both these types of processes are known to play roles in the development of preeclampsia. We attempted to show that natural ageing of the placenta can be one of the cofactors contributing to the development of late-onset preeclampsia.159 pregnant patients were divided into four groups: Two of preeclampsia patients and two of patients with physiological pregnancies, depending on the gestational age. For each group, disordered angiogenesis markers sFlt-1 and PlGF before and after 34 weeks of gestation and in particular stages of gestation were analyzed.Lower PlGF and sFlt-1/PlGF ratio values were found in cases of late-onset preeclampsia. In physiological pregnancies, sFlt-1 values were observed to increase and PlGF values to decrease with gestational age. An association was shown to exist between disordered angiogenesis markers and gestational age both in preeclampsia and physiological pregnancies.(1) Analyses of disordered angiogenesis markers in early- and late-onset preeclampsia patients and patients with physiological pregnancies allow for a suggestion that natural "ageing of the placenta" and placental hypoperfusion lesions exacerbating with the advancing gestational age are some of the causes of late-onset preeclampsia. (2) Cases of early-onset preeclampsia are associated with more severe changes of disordered angiogenesis marker concentrations, which may be indicative of a more considerable impairment of placental perfusion in such patients. (3) In the course of the physiological pregnancy, there is a gradual increase in sFlt-1 and decrease in PlGF, which implies an elevated angiogenesis disorder that progresses with the gestational age.

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