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Re: FIBROIDS: connection between uterine fibroid and recurrent miscarriage?

From: Professor Galal Lotfi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:04:42 -0500 (CDT)


As a matter of fact fibroids are on the list of the causes of recurrent abortion. Tocut it short, if there is no other obvious cause or other abnormal lab test, I believe that myomectomy to be considered.

At Tue, 22 Jul 2008, coylesh wrote: >
>i have had three pregnancies, none of which have gone to term. in 1996
>i had a d&c abortion at 8 weeks, in feb. in '08 i had a natural
>miscarriage one day after a positive pregnancy test at 4 weeks and low
>hcg levels. in june '08 i had a natural miscarriage at 10.6 weeks,
>fetus developed to 8.2 weeks after seeing a strong heartbeat on
>ultrasound after spotting at 6 weeks. 3 weeks after the most recent
>miscarriage i had an ultrasound which showed a 3.6 cm uterine fibroid. i
>don't know where it is other than at the top of my uterus. my midwfie
>assured me the miscarriages and fibroid are not related, but i've
>uncovered research that says otherwise. i'm seeing an ob/gyn next week
>and want to be armed with questions and desires for certain testing. do
>i explore removal of the fibroid? do i need hormone testing? does
>standard recurrent miscarriage testing battery cover my symptoms? etc.

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Professor Galal Lotfi, MD. MRCOG
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Cairo. Egypt
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