PURPOSE To compare and analyze socioeconomic aspects and the emotional experience of women with spontaneous or induced abortion and in women living in the outskirts of São Paulo. METHODS A prospective case-control study carried out from July 2008 to March 2010, involving semi-structured interviews with women who presented a previous diagnosis of abortion and who had been admitted to two publi...

This study provides evidence on the principal determinants of pregnancy and abortion in India using a large country-wide district-level data set (DLHS 2007). The paper provides an economic framework for the analysis of pregnancy and abortion. The study distinguishes between induced and spontaneous abortion and compares the effects of their determinants. The results show that there are wide diff...

Women of advanced maternal age are considered to be at a substantially increased risk of spontaneous abortion. The increased spontaneous abortion rate in older women rnight be associated with a defective vascular response to placentation, which rnight lead to fetal ischaemia and fetal dead. Doppler velocirnetry of the uterine artery allows non-invasive assessment of uteroplacental hemodynamics....

background: approximately 205 million pregnancies occur each year in the worldwide. on the other hand, spontaneous abortion has been reported in 15-20% of all diagnosed pregnancies. the most common cause of spontaneous abortion is chromosomal abnormalities of the embryo. robertsonian translocation carriers specially 21-14 are the most common balanced rearrangement among the carrier couples with...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies have shown mixed results for pregnancy outcomes after loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP); however, evidence is lacking regarding the pregnancy outcome of spontaneous abortion with respect to time elapsed from LEEP to pregnancy. We investigated risks of spontaneous abortion and preterm birth as they relate to time elapsed from LEEP to pregnancy. METHODS A...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of sublingual and vaginal misoprostol in the medical management of missed miscarriage. METHODS Fifty women diagnosed as having missed miscarriage of gestational age less than 20 weeks were assigned randomly to receive 400 microg of either sublingual or vaginal misoprostol every three hours, up to a maximum of five doses. The primary outcome measures were, com...

PURPOSE To estimate the risk of spontaneous abortion after use of antidepressant medication during pregnancy. METHODS From the Danish Medical Birth Registry and the Danish National Hospital Registry, we identified all pregnancies leading to in- or outpatient contacts in Denmark from February 1997 to December 2008. The Danish Registry of Medicinal Product Statistics provided information on the...

Having had a rather large experience in the treatment of these cases, and feeling that the profession, as a rule, have not very definite ideas on the subject, I am induced to place before my readers, in a very brief and practical manner, a line of treatment which has proved of service in my own practice. In the first place, I shall assume that the question of the patient being pregnant is set a...

Spontaneous abortion is the most common complication of pregnancy. Several lines of evidence indicate that immunologic effector cells may play a role in the pathogenesis of idiopathic repetitive abortions. Leukocytes form a substantial proportion of stromal cells in decidua and the endometrial granulated lymphocytes (eGL) is the predominant decidual leukocyte population in the first trimester o...