Factors contributing to the development of hypoxia

Factors contributing to the development of hypoxia are very numerous. First, maternal disease (cardiovascular, pulmonary, and anemia, intoxication, etc.), secondly, the breach of fruit-placental blood flow (preeclampsia, the threat of premature labor, pathology of the placenta and the umbilical, abnormal labor and delivery).

Diseases of the fetus also contribute to hypoxia: hemolytic disease, anemia, infection, congenital malformations, prolonged compression of the head during childbirth.

Mechanisms of hypoxia are also numerous: impaired oxygen delivery to the uterus, the deterioration of metabolic functions of the placenta, the lack of hemoglobin in the mother's body, cardiovascular disease, impaired blood flow.