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Re: I need a couple of tests names, the actual names you physicians write on your blood work orders

From: Alison (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 28 Jan 2002 16:06:38 -0600 (CST)

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At Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Holly wrote: >
>HI! Thanks to M.Kelly Shanahan on here i found out about the
>antiphospholipid syndrome and about some chromosone blood works that can
>be done for a woman with repetitive miscarraiges. Can any of the
>doctors on here give me the ACTUAL names of those blood tests that you
>would order if you felt a patient qualified for further evaluation on
>why she is miscarrying repetitively. Would they be
>"antiphosphatidlyserine antibodies test", and "chromosome analysis" or
>are there different names/tests? Also can a regular ultrasound pull up
>anything unusual in a uterus or do you have to do a laproscopy? I dont
>want to go that invasive since i already have children and i have no
>symptoms that warrant investigation except for miscarrying over and over
>recently. Thanks in advance! What a relief this board is! I dont think
>you doctors have any idea how much we admire and are grateful for your
>expertise and generosity with your minds and time. Kindly, holly

Hi, Holly - I'm not a doc, but thought I'd give you the names of some other tests which I've been having as part of an initial workup for recurrent m/cs (I, too, have two children but then had two m/cs in a row). I had an endometrial biopsy to correlate lining thickness to a particular day in my cycle. I'm due to have a hysteroscopy on Friday which is basically a camera looking around the inside of the uterus for fibroids, scarring, infection - any of which they said could have occurred since my last child was born 4 years ago. With blood tests, they tested my FSH (which shows whether you have good egg production), prolactin, TSH (which I believe is the thyroid scan), HIV, a couple of different types of hepatitis tests, lupus, antiphosphidlipid antibodies, genetic karyotypes (on both my dh and I), estradiol, and maybe a few other things for good measure - I just can't remember. Basically, my RE says she performs all of those tests as an initial workup whenever anyone has recurrent m/cs. Good luck, Alison

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