spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome and sudden cardiac death. we report coronary artery dissection in a 36-year-old woman with retrosternal chest pain 2 weeks after abortion. electrocardiography showed st elevation in leads v2-v4 and st depression in the inferior leads. lab data were normal. cardiac catheterization showed a suspicious thrombotic les...

Recurrent miscarriage is a distressing problem that affects 1% of all women. This incidence is greater than that expected by chance alone, since 10–15% of all clinically recognised pregnancies end in a miscarriage and the theoretical risk of three consecutive pregnancy losses is 0.34%. Hence, only a proportion of women presenting with recurrent miscarriage will have a persistent underlying caus...

background: recurrent abortion is a difficult medical problem happening in about 1-2% of fertile women. most spontaneous miscarriages which happen in the first and second trimesters are caused by chromosomal abnormalities. objective: the present study tries to find the rate of chromosomal abnormalities in couples with recurrent pregnancy loss. materials and methods: in total 165 couples were re...

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...

conclusions antipospholipid antibodies based on number of abortions and gestational age of abortions were increased. mean antipospholipid and anticardiolipin antibodies in all patients remained in high level just in first 5 years post abortion and then began to fall. results mean age of participants was 24-39 years old. the average rate of antiphospolipid antibodies in patients with normal anti...

background: recurrent spontaneous abortion (rsa) is defined as three or more se-quential abortions before the twentieth week of gestation. there are evidences to sup-port 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...