Abstract
ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND: The spontaneous abortion is considered as one of the important clinical problems that may affects pregnant women during the 1st 20-22 weeks of pregnancy causing dangers to the mother and her fetus. The present study was designed to focus on some spontaneous abortion causes and intrauterine fetal death. OBJECTIVE: Study certain risk factors that may play a role in abortion such as serum level of , progesterone hormone , estradiol hormone , interlukine-6 and perform a histological study on placenta to identify any specific histop- METHODS: Seventy (70) Women were selected to represent the samples of spontaneous aborted women. The women were classified into two groups , the first represented aborted women during the first trimester of pregnancy (52) and the second were females in the second trimester of pregnancy (18) , in comparison with result of (20) normally delivered pregnancies. The samples (sera and placenta) were collected during the period from November 2008 to April 2009 in Baghdad. RESULTS: Significant decrease (p0.05) in level of IL-6 between aborted women and control. There was a correlation (positive) between progesterone with IL-6 in first and second trimester (p
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A.AL-Gharrawi, Samar; R.AL-Ubaidy, Salim; and M.AL-Azawi, Bedir
(2012)
"Evaluation of Some Spontaneous Abortion-Causative Factors for Women in Baghdad Province A Serological and Histological Study,"
Iraqi Postgraduate Medical Journal: Vol. 11:
Iss.
3, Article 2.
Available at:
https://ipmj.researchcommons.org/journal/vol11/iss3/2