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Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Genetic counseling in Robertsonian translocations der(13;14): frequencies of reproductive outcomes and infertility in 101 pedigrees.

13 Oct 2008 Robertsonian translocations 13/14 are the most common chromosome rearrangements in humans. However, most studies aimed at determining risk figures are more than 20 years old. Their results are often contradictory regarding important topics in ... Read more...

Evaluating the rate and risk factors for fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling.

29 Sep 2008 OBJECTIVE: To estimate the fetal loss rate in our center and evaluate the risk factors associated with such losses after chorionic villus sampling (CVS). METHODS: This is a retrospective cohort study including all women undergoing chorionic villus ... Read more...

Women and reproductive loss: client-worker dialogues designed to break the silence.

29 Sep 2008 An estimated one in four women experiences a pregnancy loss during her lifetime. Despite the pervasiveness of fetal mortality reflected by these numbers, social workers rarely initiate dialogues regarding reproductive loss history. Reproductive ... Read more...

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• Genetic counseling in Robertsonian translocations der(13;14): frequencies of reproductive outcomes and infertility in 101 pedigrees. 13 Oct 2008
• Evaluating the rate and risk factors for fetal loss after chorionic villus sampling. 29 Sep 2008
• Women and reproductive loss: client-worker dialogues designed to break the silence. 29 Sep 2008
• Can placental pathology explain second-trimester pregnancy loss and subsequent pregnancy outcomes? 29 Sep 2008
• Contemporary outcomes with the latest 1000 cases of multifetal pregnancy reduction (MPR). 29 Sep 2008
• Pregnancy outcome in women before and after cervical conisation: population based cohort study. 16 Sep 2008
• A 10.7 Mb interstitial deletion of 13q21 without phenotypic effect defines a further non-pathogenic euchromatic variant. 13 Sep 2008
• Trisomy 1 in an early pregnancy failure. 13 Sep 2008
• Spontaneous abortion in a Danish population-based cohort of childhood cancer survivors. 8 Sep 2008
• Natural selection of FLT1 alleles and their association with malaria resistance in utero. 6 Sep 2008
• Perinatal characteristics and risk of neuroblastoma. 30 Aug 2008
• Evidence of early first-trimester growth restriction in pregnancies that subsequently end in miscarriage. 30 Aug 2008
• Microchimerism after induced or spontaneous abortion. 30 Aug 2008
• Effect of maternal and paternal age on pregnancy and miscarriage rates after intrauterine insemination. 30 Aug 2008
• Prediction of patient-specific risk for fetal loss using maternal characteristics and first- and second-trimester maternal serum Down syndrome markers. 30 Aug 2008
• Pathologic lesions of mycotic pneumonia in an alpaca following third compartment ulceration. 30 Aug 2008
• Significance of motor vehicle crashes and pelvic injury on fetal mortality: a five-year institutional review. 30 Aug 2008
• When there's a heartbeat: miscarriage management in Catholic-owned hospitals. 11 Aug 2008
• Granulysin produced by uterine natural killer cells induces apoptosis of extravillous trophoblasts in spontaneous abortion. 5 Aug 2008
• Costs and effects of prenatal screening methods for Down syndrome and neural tube defects. 3 Aug 2008

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Technical information about 'Abortion, Spontaneous'

Definition: Expulsion of the product of FERTILIZATION before completing the term of GESTATION and without deliberate interference.

Descriptor UI: D000022

Alternative terms: Abortion, Spontaneous; Abortions, Spontaneous; Spontaneous Abortions; Miscarriage; Miscarriages; Spontaneous Abortion; Abortion, Tubal; Abortions, Tubal; Tubal Abortion; Tubal Abortions;

Related Mesh Headings: Abortifacient Agents; Aborted Fetus;

Allowable Qualifiers: blood; cerebrospinal fluid; chemically induced; classification; diagnosis; diet therapy; drug therapy; economics; enzymology; ethnology; etiology; genetics; history; immunology; metabolism; microbiology; mortality; nursing; epidemiology; parasitology; pathology; physiopathology; prevention & control; psychology; radiography; radionuclide imaging; radiotherapy; rehabilitation; surgery; therapy; urine; ultrasonography; virology;

Tree Number: C13.703.039;

History Note: 99(63)

Technical Notes: /chem ind permitted but do not confuse with ABORTION, INDUCED; check the tags HUMANS & FEMALE & PREGNANCY