CRC RECURR PREG LOSS PDF

Preface

Recurrent pregnancy loss is a vexing clinical problem as the cause often remains unexplained despite the major advances in genetics and immunology. Treatment is often controversial and ranges from "masterly inactivity", to an approach which could be considered as "over aggressive". The problem is distressing to couples, who understandably expect answers and solutions, and frustrating for the physician who often does not have these answers, particularly in the face of ever-changing and conflicting recommendations. This book tries to summarize those controversies, and discuss the scientific basis for various causes of pregnancy loss in depth, and to debate the various treatment modalities which have been used in recent years. Hence, it is hoped that this book describes the accumulating data in a way which is both scientifically sound and also clinically useful, and which may improve the care of these couples.

The book is planned for general gynecologists, and specialists working in the field. Each contributing author is an authority on a specific area of recurrent pregnancy loss. I would like to thank each author for the time and effort taken in preparing the manuscripts to make publication of this book possible. I would also like to thank those responsible in a more indirect way for the publication of this book; my teachers over the years, particularly Prof. Shlomo Mashiach for his constant help and encouragement in my work in recurrent pregnancy loss. Thanks go to my collaborators, Prof 's Yehuda Shoenfeld, Aida Inbal, Ephraim Gazit, and Vladimir Toder, and special recognition goes to the greatest teachers of all, the patients.