MEGHAN MEYER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
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25 August 2002
The Palm Beach Post
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(Copyright 2002)
Victoria Goldstein will mark the first anniversary of her daughter Sophie's death on Tuesday by walking 10 kilometers to raise awareness about the condition that killed her.
Sophie Isabelle Macadar bled to death on the day she was to be born due to vasa previa, which is a condition in which blood vessels from the umbilical cord or placenta drift across the entrance to the birth canal.
The blood vessels can easily rupture. The mortality rate, if undetected, is 50 to 95 percent, according to medical authorities.
"This all started because I didn't know what to do for my daughter's anniversary besides sit at home and cry," Goldstein said. So she recruited 10 people to walk with her on Tuesday, and has received more than $500 in donations.
Goldstein will walk along State Road A1A from Palmetto Park Road to Linton Boulevard, starting at 8:30 a.m.
She volunteers on the International Vasa Previa Foundation's public relations committee, and said she would donate the money she raises to the foundation.
The foundation wants doctors to conduct color Doppler sonograms routinely to look for vasa previa in women if they have one of the following: low-lying placentas in the second trimester, are carrying more than one baby, or became pregnant through in-vitro fertilization - all considered risk factors for the condition.
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