Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

by Christiansen, Ole Bjarne

• ISBN13: 9780470672945
• ISBN10: 0470672943
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-02-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 Gynecology in Practice Series, which aims to provide a clinical ‘in the office' or ‘at the bedside' guide to effective patient care for gynecologists.

Author Biography

Ole Bjarne Christiansen, MD, PhD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Fertility Clinic, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Series Foreword

Preface

1. Obtaining the Relevant History
Ole B. Christiansen

2. Which Investigations are Relevant?
Paulien G. de Jong, Emmy van den Boogaard, Claudia Kowalik, Rosa Vissenberg, Saskia Middeldorp

3. NK Cells in Peripheral Blood and the Endomand Mariëtte Goddijnetrium
Gavin Sacks

4. Cytokines and Cytokine Gene Polymorphisms in Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
Silvia Daher, Maria Regina Torloni and Rosiane Mattar

5. How to Assess the Prognosis after Recurrent Miscarriage
Howard J.A. Carp

6. Which Treatments Should be Offered?  PGD/PGS, Lymphocyte Immunization, Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Henriette Svarre Nielsen and Ole B. Christiansen

7. Which Treatments Should be Offered:  Heparin/Aspirin, Progesterone, Prednisone
Muhammad A. Akhtar and Siobhan Quenby

8. Which Treatments Should be Offered:  Metformin, hCG, GM-CSF/C-CSF, TNF-α Inhibitors, Standard IVF/ICSI
Ole B. Christiansen

9.Talking to Patients about Lifestyle, Behaviour and Miscarriage Risk
Ruth Bender Atik and Barbara E. Hepworth-Jones

10.Endocrine and Ultrasonic Surveillance of Pregnancies in Patients with Recurrent Miscarriage
Adjoa Appiah and Jemma Johns

11.Obstetric Complications in Patients with Recurrent Miscarriage – How Should They be Monitored in the Third Trimester?
Shehnaaz Jivraj

12.Recurrent Miscarriage After ART – a Double Challenge
Elisabeth C. Larsen and Ole B. Christiansen

13.How to Cope with Stress and Depression in Women with Recurrent Miscarriage
Keren Shakhar and Dida Fleisig

14.Recurrent Miscarriage and the Risk of Autoimmune Disease and Thromboembolic Disease
M. Angeles Martinez-Zamora, Ricard Cervera and Juan Balasch

15.How to Organize and Run an Early Pregnancy Unit/Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic: European Perspective
Ann Maria Ellard and Roy G. Farquharson

16.How to Organize an Early Pregnancy Unit/Recurrent Miscarriage Clinic: American Perspective
Joanne Kwak-Kim, Kuniaki Ota and Ae-Ra Han

17.Case Studies
Ole B. Christiansen