This article discusses the current trends in the diagnosis and treatment of recurrent pregnancy loss. Genetic testing of the miscarriage tissue by 23-chromosome microarray and the ability to identify maternal cell contamination have increased our awareness of the role of aneuploidy as a cause of recurrent pregnancy loss. This increasing influence and the role of genetic testing in developing a ...

background: miscarriage is a common phenomenon complicating more than half of pregnancies. recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) is defined as three or more pregnancies lost before the twentieth week of gestation. it is believed that abnormality in maternal immune reaction to fetus and sharing of hla antigens might be associated with rpl. objective: to investigate the effect of hla-drb1 sharing betwee...