Steroid-based treatment can prevent miscarriages
by admin ~ January 4th, 2010.
According to a conference in Liverpool in the UK, a third of the miscarriages can be prevented among women who have suffered repeated miscarriages or failed IVF treatments with a course of steroids.
The research was presented at the British Association conference and highlighted that many of the 3,000 unexplained miscarriages each year may be preventable with steroids.
Dr. Siobhan Quenby, of the University of Liverpool and the Liverpool Women’s Hospital remarked that tests involving 120 women had examined natural killer cells as a cause of miscarriages and failed IVF embryo implants.
From News-Medical.Net:
Steroids prescribed to 40 women, who had suffered multiple miscarriages, resulted in three quarters of them successfully giving birth.
The steroid treatment has been shown to reduce the level of natural killer cells in the uterus, and this is thought to increase the chances of an embryo going to full term.
Dr. Quenby says currently there is no treatment for the thousands of women around the world who are desperate because they keep miscarrying for no reason.
She says there is a massive and desperate need for a treatment and suggests that a third of miscarriages could be prevented.
Dr. Quenby, in partnership with the Miscarriage Association, is now looking for 40 women with high levels of natural killer cells and a history of miscarriages to take part in a trial.
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