Risk Factors
- Pre-eclampsia
- Maternal smoking is associated with up to 90% increased risk.
- See also: Smoking and pregnancy
- Maternal trauma, such as motor vehicle accidents, assaults, falls or nosocomial infection.
- Short umbilical cord
- Prolonged rupture of membranes (>24 hours)
- Thrombophilia
- Retroplacental fibromyoma
- Multiparity
- Multiple pregnancy
- Maternal age: pregnant women who are younger than 20 or older than 35 are at greater risk.
- Previous abruption: Women who have had an abruption in previous pregnancies are at greater risk.
- Previous Caesarean section
- some infections are also diagnosed as a cause
- cocaine intoxication
Read more about this topic: Placental Abruption
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