In a study of early abortions (less than 16-week pregnancies) no significant increase in fetomaternal haemorrhage was found in patients having either threatened or incomplete abortions. A statistically significant increase in fetal cells in the maternal circulation, however, occurred after curettage. The administration of oxytocic drugs in conjunction with curettage in cases of incomplete abort...

The clinical diagnosis of threatened abortion is presumed when any bloody vaginal discharge or bleeding appears during the first trimester of pregnancy. A prospective study on women with threatened abortion reported that women older than 34 years had an odds ratio of 2.3 for miscarriage (Falco et al., 1996). Some women who bleed in early pregnancy, approximately half of them, will abort (Weiss ...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous abortion is categorized as threatened, inevitable, incomplete, complete, or missed. Abortion can be further categorized as sporadic or recurrent. By definition, a missed abortion is an in utero death of the embryo or fetus before the 20th week of gestation with retained conception products. Missed abortions may also be referred to as blighted ovum or an anembryonic pregna...

REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY Equine herpesvirus 1 (EHV-1) is one of the most common causes of infectious abortion in mares. Analysing the demography of outbreaks and detailing subsequent reproductive performance of affected mares will assist in the management of future (threatened) epizootics. OBJECTIVES To examine the epidemiology and reproductive outcomes of 2 EHV-1 abortion epizootics with...