Read the whole article by Courtney Chandler here in UConn Today.
Placenta accreta is a rapidly growing disease during pregnancy
Researchers in School of Dental Medicine and School of Medicine received major R01 funding from the Eunice Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to address the mechanisms driving placenta accreta spectrum (PAS), a devastating disease emerging in women with prior cesarean surgeries in subsequent pregnancies.
Dr. Kshitiz, associate professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, a shared department in the Schools of Dental Medicine and Medicine and the College of Engineering, will be using the $2.5 million grant to understand how previous scars from cesarean surgery can pave the way for aggressive invasion of the placenta into the mother’s uterus, and sometimes beyond. Kshitiz will be working alongside Dr. Molly Brewer, chair and professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the UConn School of Medicine.