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RENO, NEV. -- Women who've had three spontaneous abortions before a current pregnancy have almost a 50% higher risk of carrying a fetus with aneuploidy than those who've never had a miscarriage, according to a large review of women who had undergone amniocentesis.
The aneuploidy rate becomes almost 2% in women who have had three pregnancy losses, Katherine Bianco, M.D., and associates wrote in a poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
The study reviewed fetal karyotype analyses from 46,939 women who had been seen at a single ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Aneuploidy rate rises with miscarriage rate.(Obstetrics)