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-Placenta accreta refers to an abnormal placental implantation in which the anchoring placental villi attach to the myometrium, rather than being contained by decidual cells. This results in a placenta that is abnormally adherent to the uterus. Related, but more severe abnormalities of placental implantation include placenta increta(in to myometrium) and precreta(to peripheral organ).-The most important risk factor for placenta accreta is previous uterine surgery and the most common setting is placenta previa after a prior pregnancy delivered by cesarean.
* Unscarred uterus, 1 to 5 percent
* One previous cesarean birth, 11 to 25 percent
* Two previous cesarean births, 35 to 47 percent
* Three previous cesarean births, 40 percent
* Four or more previous cesarean births, 50 to 67 percent
-The most useful modalities for evaluating placental position and implantation are transabdominal and transvaginal ultrasonography. The sensitivity and specificity of ultrasound for detection of placenta accreta are approximately 0.80 and 0.95, respectively.