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...

there are several known and unknown factors for unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (ursa). among them, complement regulatory protein cd46 plays a pivotal role in preventing uncontrolled activation of complement and successful continuation of pregnancy. we aimed in this study to investigate the possible association of cd46 ivs1-1724 c>g polymorphism with rsa in iranian women. 141 women w...

endometrial calcification along with ossification is an uncommon clinical entity. most of the cases are asymptomatic or present with secondary infertility. endometrial ossification associated with repeated abortions has been reported very infrequently. here we report a case of endometrial calcification with ossification  due to retained fetal bony tissue in a 38 year old symptomatic female havi...

background chromosomal abnormality plays an important role in different types of miscarriages. objectives the present study was designed to investigation chromosomal anomalies in three groups of couples with recurrent abortion (ra), spontaneous abortion (sa) and still birth (sb). patients and methods in this retrospective study, the frequency of chromosomal aberrations was investigated among 26...

the aim of this study was to investigate the possible role of multiple inherited thrombophilic gene variations in women with unexplained spontaneous abortions. for this purpose, the factor v leiden (fvl) (rs6025), prothrombin g20210a (rs1799963), mthfr c677t (rs1801133), pai-1 4g/5g (rs1799889), ace i/d (rs1799752), enos e298d (rs1799983), and apo e e2/e3/e4 (rs429358) polymorphisms were genoty...

introduction: the majoritiy of abortion risk factors has been classified as environmental and vary from one place to another. this study aimed to explore the relationship between exposure to pesticides and spontaneous abortion among female pistachio farmers in rafsanjan, iran.   materials and methods: in this case-control study, 50 women with spontaneous abortion and 50 women without this histo...

introduction: recurrent abortion (ra) may be a consequence of aberrant expression of immunological factors during pregnancy. although the relative importance of immunological factors in human reproduction remains controversial, substantial evidence suggests that autoantibodies contribute to reproductive failure. production of such antibodies is under the control of cytokines; and leptin, beside...

it has been recognized that acute and chronic stress has an impact on the immune system. acute stress may have a stimulating effect on the immune system, while in the case of chronic stress specially depression, the immune system could be down-regulated. however, an association between depression and a higher number of circulating white blood cells with increased activity has been reported. ele...

background:   objective: in this study we performed linkage analysis on a large x linked rsa pedigree to find a novel susceptibility locus for rsa.   materials and methods: a linkage scan using 11 microsatellites was performed in 27 members of a large pedigree of hereditary x-linked rsa. two point parametric linkage was performed using superlink v 1.6 program. results: evidence of linkage was o...