[The prenatal diagnosis of placental insufficiency in pregnant women with a herpetic infection].

Our objective in this study was to find out exactly the diagnostic criteria for dysfunction of the fetoplacental complex in pregnant women with herpes infection. A total of 62 pregnant women who ran a high risk for intrauterine infection were examined. As many as 87 percent of female patients were found to be PHV-infected displaying manifestations of the immunodeficiency syndrome such as increased pathological antibody formation and activation of mechanisms of cell immunosuppression, which fact results in disturbance in the fetomaternal immune relations. Routine methods of obstetric examination lack informative value, which fact necessitates conducting a combined echographic and immunological investigation in order that we might be able to establish a perinatal prognosis.