some interest to this Society, and I have to thank the Senior Physicians of the Royal Maternity Hospital for their kind permission to bring it before you this evening. By habitual abortion or miscarriage I mean, of course, an obstetrical history consisting of an almost uninterrupted series of abortions, miscarriages and very premature labours, but it is interesting to note that in nine of the n...

Although ABO incompatibility between mother and fetus has long been suspected as cause of spontaneous abortion in man, its precise contribution has not been completely resolved. In spite of reports in which the incompatible mating was recognized to be a cause of habitual abortion, and which eventually results in infertility or a reduction in the number of living children compared with the numbe...

Although ABO incompatibility between mother and fetus has long been suspected as cause of spontaneous abortion in man, its precise contribution has not been completely resolved. In spite of reports in which the incompatible mating was recognized to be a cause of habitual abortion, and which eventually results in infertility or a reduction in the number of living children compared with the numbe...

Background and Objective: To assess the diagnostic value of hysterosalpingography (HSG) in the evaluation of the uterine cavity in recurrent aborters in comparison to hysteroscopy as the gold standard of diagnosis. Methods: 58 reproductive age women, all with habitual abortion (3 consecutive abortions), were examined by both HSG and hysteroscopy. Results: The overall sensitivity and specificity...

To test the Efficacy of outpatient intracervical injection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells in the treatment of habitual abortion cervical insufficiency. Pilot study Heliopolis research center and Heliopolis Hospital, Cairo, Egypt Preparation of peripheral blood mononuclear cells, transvaginal ultrasound, IL-8, collagenases in the cervical mucus, Aquaporins in the cervical smears before PB...

In this study we analyzed gender differences in the intensity of habitual guilt, as well as those in interpersonal sensitivity and the tendency towards experiencing feelings of guilt with a high anxious-aggressive component. The 360 participants (adolescents, young adults and adults) were asked to relate one of the situations that most frequently caused them to experience guilt and to rank its ...

©FFPRHC J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2007: 33(4) Background Abortion induced by physical trauma has a long history. This article describes bas-relief sculptures in Angkor Wat, Cambodia dating from the 9th to the 12th centuries, and compares them to contemporary observations of massage abortion. The Cambodian carvings, along with two similar representations in Indonesia, are the earliest known...

The Therapeutic Abortion Survey was originally designed to measure all legally induced abortions performed in Canada (and to the extent possible, abortions performed in the US on Canadian residents prior to 2004). Statistics Canada was responsible for the survey up to the 1994 data year. As of the 1995 data year, the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) assumed data collection, comp...

In 1990, an association between thyroid antibody positivity and spontaneous miscarriage was first reported. A generation has passed since the initial observation. Over that time a robust literature has developed which has confirmed the initial finding and expanded upon it. The present paper reviews the literature that has been generated over the last twenty years on the following topics: (1) th...

OBJECTIVE Information on adverse pregnancy outcomes is important to monitor the impact of public health interventions. Miscarriage is a challenging end point to ascertain and there is scarce information on its rate in low-income countries. The objective was to estimate the background rate and cumulative probability of miscarriage in rural western Kenya. DESIGN This was a population-based pros...