ABSTRACT Background and Objective: To assess the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography (HSG) in the evaluation of the uterine cavity in recurrent aborters in comparison to hysteroscopy as the gold standard of diagnosis. Methods: 58 reproductive age women, all with habitual abortion (3 consecutive abortions), were examined by both HSG and hysteroscopy. Results: The overall sensitivity and s...

OBJECTIVE To establish a method of estimating the proportion of women with a subsequent live birth after a well-defined time period in an open cohort of women referred to a tertiary recurrent miscarriage clinic. METHODS We performed a descriptive cohort study with register-based follow-up at a tertiary center for investigation and treatment of recurrent miscarriage in Denmark. All women with ...

UNLABELLED Objectives : To determine whether paternal factors i.e., age, tobacco use and genital tract infection increase the risk for spontaneous first trimester miscarriage. Methodology : This case control study was conducted in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Unit V / IV, Dow Medical College & Lyari General Hospital, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan. Duration ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to understand how women with single or recurrent miscarriages cope during the waiting periods after miscarriage--waiting for pregnancy or waiting for pregnancy confirmation--and to investigate their perception of a 'positive reappraisal' coping intervention designed for these waiting periods. Positive reappraisal is a cognitive strategy to change the meaning...

BACKGROUND Violence is an important health problem for pregnant women, with numerous studies showing that it may compromise maternal and infant health. Many women who seek an elective abortion (EA) live in difficult personal and social circumstances, in which violence often has a central role, yet few studies have analyzed the relationships between violence and having an EA. OBJECTIVES To ana...

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since lifetime estimates can be confounded when people sampled are still of reproductive age. Despite these problems we believe that a critical goal, and one that should be taken up by the World Health Organization, is to ascertain contemporary worldwide prevalence rates for infertility as the WHO cannot meet its Reproductive Health Strategy objectives regarding unmet reproductive health needs ...

When trying to conceive 1% of couples have recurrent miscarriages, defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy losses. This is not accounted for by the known incidence of chromosomal aneuploidy in miscarriage, and it has been suggested that there is an immunological aetiology. The endometrial mucosa is populated by a variety of immune cells which in addition to providing host pathogen immuni...

Many clinical trials in obstetrics have failed to demonstrate improved outcomes with low-dose aspirin. This is not entirely surprising as prescribing aspirin for compromised tissue perfusion without insight into underlying pathology inevitably leads to suboptimal outcomes. We argue that a mismatch between the aspirin dose and the underlying pathology of altered tissue perfusion is the key facto...