Pregnancy and Issues with Inherited and Acquired Thrombophilia

Pregnancy is hypercoagulable state. The field of thrombophilia; the tendency to thrombosis, has been developed rapidly and has been linked to many aspects of pregnancy. It is recently that severe pregnancy complications such as severe preeclampsia, intrauterine growth retardation, abruptio placentae and stillbirth has been shown to be associated with thrombophilia. Recurrent miscarriage has also been associated with thrombophilia. The incidence of all types of thrombophilia (inherited and acquired) in women with obstetrical complications is not so rare and every specialist should think about these conditions and has to investigate and to suspect them in their patients with recurrent fetal loss or severe complication of the pregnancy.