Recurrent pregnancy loss /
Recurrent pregnancy loss is an emotional challenge for patients. This book offers a practical approach to office-based gynecologists and trainee gynecologists to learn how to identify the root causes and minimize the risks of further miscarriage in subsequent pregnancies. This book is part of the Gy...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chichester :
Wiley Blackwell,
2014.
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| Series: | Gynecology in practice.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; Copyright; Contents; Series Foreword; Contributors; Preface to the First Edition; 1 Obtaining the Relevant History; Introduction; Demographic data; Parental Age; BMI; Lifestyle Factors; Social Class; Occupational Factors; Partner; Reproductive history; Clinical Appearance of Pregnancy Losses; Gestational Age of Pregnancy Losses; Perinatal Data; Disease history; Family history; Conclusions; Bibliography; 2 Which Investigations Are Relevant?; Introduction; Thrombophilia tests; Tests; Coagulation Cascade, Regulatory Mechanisms; Inherited Thrombophilia.
- Prevalence of Inherited ThrombophiliaPathophysiological Mechanisms Leading to Pregnancy Loss; Strength of the Association; Anticoagulant Therapy; Evidence and Drawbacks; Screening for thrombophilia in women with recurrent miscarriage; Conclusions; Parental and fetal karyotyping; Parental Chromosome Abnormalities; Parental Chromosome Abnormalities and Recurrent Miscarriage; Testing; Reproductive consequences of carrier status; Treatment or prevention; Fetal karyotype; Testing the Fetal Karyotype; Prognostic Value and Treatment; Conclusions; Tests for diagnosing uterine anomalies.
- Congenital Uterine AnomaliesUterine Anomalies and Pregnancy Outcomes; Diagnosis of uterine anomalies; Prognosis of pregnancy outcome; Treatment of Uterine Anomalies; Conclusion; Thyroid function tests; Thyroid Disorders; Diagnosis of Thyroid Disorders; Thyroid Autoimmunity and Pregnancy Outcomes; Treatment of Thyroid Autoimmunity; Screening for Thyroid Autoimmunity; Further Research on Thyroid Autoimmunity; Conclusions; Summary; Bibliography; 3 NK Cells in Peripheral Blood and the Endometrium; Introduction; NK cells and reproduction; Methods of assessment.
- NK cell analysis in recurrent miscarriageNK cell testing in practice; Targeted immune therapy; Immune therapy caution; When to offer NK cell testing; Bibliography; 4 Cytokines and Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss; Introduction
- Cytokines and pregnancy: basic concepts; Interactions between Treg cells, Th17 cells, and cytokines and normal pregnancy and RPL; Cytokine gene polymorphisms and RPL
- an overview; Practical evaluation of cytokines for the diagnostic of RPL; Conclusion; Bibliography; 5 How to Assess the Prognosis after Recurrent Miscarriage; Introduction.
- Method of studySpecific causes of RPL and prognosis; Number of Miscarriages; Maternal Age; Karyotype of Previous Miscarriage; Concurrent Infertility; Late Pregnancy Losses; Primary, Secondary, or Tertiary Aborter Status; Parental Chromosomal Rearrangements; Antiphospholipid Antibodies; Hereditary Thrombophilias; Immunological Factors; Thyroid Dysfunction; Uterine Anomalies; Sperm Defects; Psychological Stress; Prognosis in pregnancy; Classification of prognosis; Good Prognosis; Medium Prognosis Patients; Poor Prognosis Patients; Conclusions; Bibliography.