In addition to ultrasonographic monitoring of folliculogenesis, urinary luteinizing hormone testing, luteal phase endometrial biopsy, serum antiphospholipid antibodies, etc., immunologic tests are recently being used to evaluate reproductive disorders. In this study, sharing of HLA-A, B, C and DR antigens and the presence of antipaternal cytotoxic antibody (APCA) was assessed using microcyt...

BACKGROUND It is well known that miscarriage risk increases with age. However, studies usually investigate only maternal age effects. We investigated both maternal age and paternal age effects on miscarriage risk to provide insight into this frequent reproductive failure. METHODS The last planned pregnancies (n = 3174) that ended in a birth or miscarriage were analysed in a retrospective popu...

Women who miscarry two or more consecutive pregnancies deserve an evaluation to look for the cause, which sometimes can be treated. They can also be reassured that approximately 70% of women in this situation ultimately succeed in having a baby, even though the cause of recurrent miscarriage can be determined in only about half of cases.

OBJECTIVE To determine the sociocultural factors that have effect on spontaneous abortion in Burdur, Turkey. METHODS Study was designed as case-control study. The case group consist of 257 women whose pregnancies ended with spontaneous abortion. The control group consisted of 514 women whose pregnancy continued since 22 weeks and more during the study. Chi-square, and backward LR logistic reg...

BACKGROUND Expectant management is an alternative for curettage in women with a miscarriage. AIM To assess the pattern of vaginal bleeding and pain in expectantly managed women with a miscarriage, and to analyse the factors predictive of a relatively quick spontaneous loss of pregnancy. DESIGN OF STUDY Part of a study comparing expectant management with surgical evacuation. SETTING Two ho...

to provide a comprehensive review of the published literature of patients with endometrial bone or osseous fragments with a view to critically examine the antecedent clinical presentation, investigations and prognosis after treatment. this systematic review of the literature includes full text articles of published case reports and cases series from the following computerized databases: pubmed,...

chorionic villus sampling (cvs) is a new method and its true risk of fetal loss and complications is not still clearly determined. the objective of this study was to review the clinical pregnancy outcome of transabdominal cvs (ta-cvs) performed on women with minor beta thalassemia. ta-cvs performed on 300 women with a singleton pregnancy and we could follow 213 women until delivery. data regard...

INTRODUCTION Male infertility factor is defined if the total number of motile spermatozoa (TMSC) < 20 × 10(6)/ejaculated, and unexplained infertility if spermiogram is normal with normal female factor. THE AIM of this study was to determine the predictive value of TMSC for spontaneous pregnancy (ST) and pregnancy after treatment with intrauterine insemination (IUI) in couples with male factor...

Acute abdomen during pregnancy is not an uncommon emergency in obstetrical practice. But dilemma occurs when no cause is found despite thorough workup and investigations, even on laparotomy. Peritonitis though may occur during pregnancy following tubal rupture in ectopic pregnancy or other intra abdominal conditions but spontaneous bacterial peritonitis is rarest of rare occurrence during pregn...