Unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss and markers of arterial vascular health: An experimental case-control study.

Objective: To investigate whether women with unexplained recurrent pregnancy loss have impaired arterial vascular health compared with controls, and to evaluate whether this is modifiable by exercise.

Design: Experimental case-control pilot study.

Setting: University medical centre in the Netherlands.

Unexplained first trimester recurrent pregnancy loss and low venous reserves.

Background: More than half of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) remains unexplained. We hypothesized that women with a history of unexplained RPL (URPL) have low venous reserve.

Methods: Case-control study in 12 women with a history of URPL, 11 healthy nulliparous controls and 12 primiparous controls with a history of uncomplicated pregnancy.

The long-term outcome of 946 consecutive couples visiting a fertility clinic in 2001-2003.

Objective: To describe the outcome of fertility work-up, treatment, and dropout in a cohort of subfertile couples in a well-defined area in Western Europe.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: Maastricht University Medical Center.

[Compartment syndrome following laparoscopic procedures in the lithotomy position].

A laparoscopic tubectomy in the lithotomy position was performed on a healthy 31-year-old woman, as treatment following an extra-uterine pregnancy. The operation proceeded without complications and took 60 minutes. However, on the third day following surgery the woman was diagnosed with compartment syndrome, which was treated with three-compartment fasciotomy.