What is placenta accreta"
When Kim Kardashian and Kanye West decided to have a third child, they used a surrogate because Kim was unable to carry another baby. In her first two pregnancies, she?d had a condition called placenta accreta, which left a hole and scar tissue in her uterus.
Placenta accreta occurs when the placenta grows too deeply into the wall of the uterus where it may not detach on its own after a baby is born. Though the placenta still functions normally to help the baby grow well, the condition can be dangerous to the mom, because trying to detach the placenta after birth can cause massive bleeding, and damage to other organs that the placenta has attached to. The deeper it?s attached, the more dangerous it is.
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The uterus is composed of an inner layer, which thickens up during pregnancy to create what?s called the decidua, and an outer layer of muscle called the myometrium. Placenta accreta occurs when the placenta grows through the inner layer and attaches to that outer muscle. But in some cases, it?s even more severe, growing into the outer muscle (called placenta increta), or even through that muscle where it may attach to other organs like the bladder (called placenta percret...
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