{"id":8765,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/placenta_previa\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:16","slug":"placenta_previa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/placenta_previa\/","title":{"rendered":"Placenta previa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An obstetrical complication in which the placenta is implanted into a lower than&nbsp;usual segment of the uterus, partially or completely obstructing the cervical opening to the vagina. &nbsp;It is the main cause of antepartum haemorrhage (vaginal bleeding) and if severe enough may lead to a cesearian section or preterm birth, especially if it remains unresolved beyond 20 weeks of pregnancy. &nbsp;In the US, placenta previa is reported to have an incidence of 2.8 per 1000 live births, and affects 0.5 off all pregnancies.. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"abruptio_placentae\">Abruptio placentae<\/a>, <a href=\"incidence\">Incidence<\/a>, <a href=\"preterm_birth\">Preterm birth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An obstetrical complication in which the placenta is implanted into a lower than&nbsp;usual segment of the uterus, partially or completely obstructing the cervical opening to the vagina. &nbsp;It is the main cause of antepartum haemorrhage (vaginal bleeding) and if severe enough may lead to a cesearian section or preterm birth, especially if it remains unresolved &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/placenta_previa\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Placenta previa&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}