PROBLEM Recurrent spontaneous abortion associated with immunologic abnormalities has been termed immunologic abortion. Previously we showed that treatment with low-dose intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) appears to be beneficial for older women with immunologic abortion. We now report the results of IVIG treatment in a larger group of women with this disorder. METHOD OF STUDY A total of 99 wom...

BACKGROUND Controversy exists about whether abortion or childbirth is associated with greater psychological risks. We compared psychiatric admission rates of women in time periods from 90 days to 4 years after either abortion or childbirth. METHODS We used California Medicaid (Medi-Cal) records of women aged 13-49 years at the time of either abortion or childbirth during 1989. Only women who ...

Background Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is a complication in pregnancy that results into fetus rejection by mother and several factors such as anatomical, genetic and immunological problems can be its etiologic causes. Paternal lymphocyte therapy as an immunotherapy for these patients has been more evaluated. The purpose of lymphocyte therapy is stimulation of the mother immune system t...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Conventional cytogenetic studies have revealed more number of females in spontaneous abortion and it has been assumed that a large proportion of those were resulted from maternal contamination and overgrowth of maternal decidua in long term culture. In this study we have attempted to overcome difficulties of conventional cytogenetics by using meticulous tissue dissecti...

The present study aims to explore the relationship between the Y chromosome polymorphisms (1qh+, inv(9), 9qh+, 16qh+, group D/G, Yqh- and Yqh+) and the risk of unexplained recurrent miscarriage (URM). A total of 507 couples with URM were recruited as case group and 465 healthy couples as control group. The Y chromosome polymorphisms of the male individuals were analysed with the G-banding techn...

background: recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) defined by two or more failed pregnancies before 20 weeks of gestation. several factors play a role in rpl including thrombophilic conditions which can be influenced by gene polymorphisms. plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (pai-1) and angiotensin converting enzyme (ace) genes are closely related to fibrinolytic process, embryonic development and pregna...

Genetic factors in the form of maternal or fetal single gene disorders, chromosomal abnormalities, inherited thrombophilia and other genes involved are the main causes of recurrent abortion (RA). The risk of miscarriage is highest among couples where the woman is >35 years of age and the man >40 years of age. In about 50–70% of miscarriage, a chromosome abnormality is identified in the products...

Rather than investigate whether paternal leukocyte immunization improves the live birth rate in women with three or more abortions, we analysed the results of patients expected to have a poor outcome in a subsequent pregnancy if untreated, i.e. women with five or more abortions and no anti-paternal complement-dependent antibody (APCA) at initial testing. The analysis included the results of pat...

BACKGROUND Recurrent spontaneous abortion (RSA) is defined as three or more sequential abortions before the twentieth week of gestation. There are evidences to support an allo-immunologic mechanism for RSA. One of the methods for treatment of RSA is leukocyte therapy; however there is still controversy about effectiveness of this method. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effectiveness of leukocyte t...