The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlation of exposing to the cigarette smoke in childhood and adolescence with infertility and abortion in women. This case-control study evaluated 178 women who had been attended to at the Amir-al-Momenin Hospital in Tehran in 2012-2013. Seventy-eight women with chief complaint of abortion, infertility, and missed abortion and 100 healthy women were c...

We analysed a prospective series of 204 pregnancies occurring in 168 women after a prostaglandin-induced abortion. The mean (+/-standard error of mean) interval between abortion and first subsequent conception was 10.4 +/- 0.6 months; no patient reported secondary subfertility.Fifty-five of the subsequent pregnancies were terminated, 23 during the second trimester, again using prostaglandins. O...

This cross-sectional study of 204 women who had experienced a missed abortion, diagnosed at 10-14 weeks of pregnancy, examined the availability and desirability of routine follow-up care, and whether such care is associated with reduced psychological morbidity in the aftermath of miscarriage. Clinically elevated anxiety and depression were observed in 45% and 15% of women, respectively, and the...

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...

INTRODUCTION Copper is essential micronutrient and has an important role in the human body. The serum copper increases during pregnancy and is doubled at full term. Lower levels of serum copper in pregnancy are connected with some pathological conditions. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to estimate the levels of serum copper in normal and pathological pregnancies, comparing them with valu...

BACKGROUND Complications of unsafe abortion are a major contributor to maternal deaths in developing countries. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical assessment for life-threatening complications and the following management in women admitted with complications from abortions at a rural hospital in Uganda. METHODS A partially completed criterion-based audit was conducted comparing actual ...