Spontaneous pregnancy loss affects 15-18% of couples, and a number of potential causes are being discussed. The purpose of the present study was to assess if angiogenic disorders in the decidua of early human pregnancy could be related to spontaneous abortions. First trimester human decidua from elective terminations of normally progressing pregnancies and from missed abortions were investigate...

Malawi has a high maternal mortality rate, of which unsafe abortion is a major cause. About 140,000 induced abortions are estimated every year, despite there being a restrictive abortion law in place. This leads to complications, such as incomplete abortions, which need to be treated to avoid further harm. Although manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) is a safe and cheap method of evacuating the uter...

CONTEXT Accurate information about abortion incidence and services is necessary to monitor levels of unwanted pregnancy and women's ability to access abortion services. METHODS All known abortion providers in the United States were contacted for information about abortion services in 2004 and 2005. This information, along with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, was used to examine national and...

CONTEXT Following a long-term decline, abortion incidence stabilized between 2005 and 2008. Given the proliferation of state-level abortion restrictions, it is critical to assess abortion incidence and access to services since that time. METHODS In 2012-2013, all facilities known or expected to have provided abortion services in 2010 and 2011 were surveyed. Data on the number of abortions wer...

Making critical sections abortable is a promising approach to controlling priority inversions. To improve the schedulability of a system using abortions, the maximum number of abortions should be decreased. In this paper, we propose a real-time synchronization protocol named the selective abort protocol (SAP) which introduces a new abort scheme to the priority ceiling protocol. Our proposed sch...

CONTEXT Although Guatemalan law permits induced abortion only to save a woman's life, many women obtain abortions, often under unsafe conditions and in response to an unintended pregnancy. Recent studies indicate that unsafe abortion is a key factor contributing to maternal morbidity and mortality in the country, but no national data on the incidence of abortion exist. METHODS Surveys of all ...

Fifty-seven patients who underwent hysteroscopic septum resection between January 1991 and December 1996 were studied; nine patients presented with recurrent abortions, 46 with infertility (26 primary and 20 secondary), one with dysmenorrhoea and one with an asymptomatic complete septum. Their reproductive history included 78 pregnancies: 69 (88.4%) abortions, two (2.6%) ectopics, two (2.6%) pr...

INTRODUCTION Despite high access to contraceptive services, 42% of the women who seek an abortion in Sweden have a history of previous abortion(s). The reasons for this high repeat abortion rate remain obscure. The objective of this study was to study the choice of contraceptive method after abortion and related odds of repeat abortions within 3-4 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS This is a retrosp...

OBJECTIVE To estimate prevalence and correlates of abortion provision among practicing obstetrician-gynecologists (ob-gyns) in the United States. METHODS We conducted a national probability sample mail survey of 1,800 practicing ob-gyns. Key variables included whether respondents ever encountered patients seeking abortions in their practice and whether they provided abortion services. Correla...