Scientific Information

Books

Handbook of Early Pregnancy Care. Eds Tom Bourne and George Condous. 2006 Informa Healthcare. London

Recurrent Pregnancy Loss. Causes, Contoversies and Treatment. Ed Howard JA Carp. 2007 Informa Healthcare, London

Early Pregnancy, Editors Farquharson RG and Stephenson MD. Cambridge University Press 2010, New York, USA

Guidelines

RCOG recommendations arising from the study group on Problems in early pregnancy - Advances in diagnosis and management

RCOG guideline: Management of early pregnancy loss

RCOG guideline: The management of recurrent miscarriage

ACOG recommendations for management of recurrent miscarriage

AEPU guidelines for early pregnancy clinics 2007

Terminology

Farquharson RG, Jauniaux E and Exalto N. Updated and revised nomenclature for description of early pregnancy events. Human Reprod 2005; 20: 3008-3011

Recurrent Miscarriage

Jauniaux E, Farquharson RG, Christiansen OB, Exalto, N. Evidence-based guidelines for the investigation and medical treatment of recurrent miscarriage. Human Reprod 2006; 21: 2216-2222

Obstetric outcome

van Oppenraaij RH, Jauniaux E, Christiansen OB, Horcajadas JA, Farquharson RG, Exalto N; On Behalf of ESHRE Special Interest Group for Early Pregnancy (SIGEP). Predicting adverse obstetric outcome after early pregnancy events and complications: a review. Hum Reprod Update. 2009 Mar 7.

Cochrane Library

Cochrane reviews on Recurrent Miscarriage

Cochrane reviews on Sporadic Miscarriage

Cochrane reviews on Ectopic Pregnancy

Abstracts

1999

- Cytogenetic aspects of early pregnancy failure. Geraedts J.P.M.

2001

- Thrombophilia and recurrent miscarriage - the emerging evidence. Regan L

2001

- Maternal hyperhomocysteinaemia and abnormal pregnancy outcome. Steegers E.A.R

2002

- Development of the maternal-fetal interface. Aplin, J.D.

2003

- The contribution of placental oxidative stress in miscarriage. Burton G.J.

2004

- aPL screening and the use of aspirin and heparin. R. Rai

2004

- Do we need drug intervention in early pregnancy after ART? The progesterone story: facts and fiction. N. Macklon

2005

- Epidemiological studies on vanishing twins and consequences for the surviving singletons. A. Pinborg

2006

- The impact of a first-born boy on the prognosis in secondary recurrent miscarriage patients. Svarre Nielsen H.

2007

- Polarity and cell fate in the early human embryo C. Hansis

2008

- Cytogenetic aspects of early pregnancy loss M. Stephenson