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Ep. 193: Inside UCSF’s Accreta Center: Lessons in Care, Trauma, and Healing
In this episode of The Birth Trauma Mama Podcast, Kayleigh sits down with Dr. Arianna Cassidy, maternal-fetal medicine physician at UCSF, to unpack one of the most complex and high-risk conditions in pregnancy: placenta accreta.
Placenta accreta spectrum disorders have been rising alongside C-section rates, yet remain widely misunderstood. Dr. Cassidy shares her personal journey into medicine, her role in building UCSF’s multidisciplinary accreta center, and why the care for these patients must go beyond surgery and survival.
Together, they explore:
🩸 What placenta accreta is, why it happens…
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