Systematic Reviews of Treatments for the Prevention of Miscarriage

Follow the links below to find systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of treatments for the prevention of miscarriage.

Reviewed November 2011

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Title:   Expectant care (waiting) versus surgical treatment for miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Miscarriage is pregnancy failure before 14 weeks, which is common in early pregnancy. Such a loss in early pregnancy can affect a woman's physical and mental health. Doctors often suggest surgery such as dilation and curettage (D and C) or vacuum aspi...
Date:   Feb 2012
Title:   Follow-up for improving psychological well being for women after a miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Miscarriage is the premature, or loss of a fetus, up to 23 weeks of pregnancy. Some women suffer from anxiety and depression after miscarriage which may be part of their grief following the loss. Psychological follow-up might detect those women who are ...
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Progestogen for treating threatened miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Miscarriage occurs in about 15% to 20% of pregnancies. Threatened miscarriage is when a mother might be losing her baby at less than 20 weeks' gestation. The signs are vaginal bleeding, with or without abdominal pain, while the cervix is closed. The use...
Date:   Oct 2011
Title:   Metroplasty versus expectant management for women with recurrent miscarriage and a septate uterus
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No randomised controlled studies have been identified which assess the effectiveness of operative resection of a septate uterus (a septate uterus is a division of the womb into two cavities, instead of one cavity) in women with recurrent miscarriage (RM...
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Vitamin supplementation for preventing miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Supplementing women with any vitamins does not reduce the number of women who miscarry or have a stillbirth. Poor diet, without enough vitamins, has been associated with an increased risk of women losing their baby in early pregnancy. Taking vitamin sup...
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Surgical procedures to evacuate incomplete miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Vacuum aspiration is a safe and quick treatment for incomplete miscarriages. Bleeding and infection generally result if the uterus is not emptied after incomplete miscarriage (where parts of the products of conception are left in the uterus). The review...
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Bed rest during pregnancy for preventing miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence to say if bed rest helps in preventing miscarriage. Miscarriage is the loss of a baby before 23 weeks of pregnancy and this can cause much distress for parents. The most common treatment used to prevent it is probably bed rest. The r...
Date:   May 2010
Title:   Human chorionic gonadotrophin for threatened miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Threatened miscarriage is a term used when a woman who is less than 24 weeks pregnant with a live baby experiences bleeding. The mother has vaginal bleeding, with or without abdominal pain and cramps, but the cervix is closed. Miscarriage is a source of...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Inserting an IUD right after abortion or miscarriage versus a later time
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Inserting an intrauterine device (IUD) right after an abortion or miscarriage can be good for many reasons. The woman is not pregnant and may be thinking about birth control. The time and place are convenient for the woman. If asked to delay IUD inserti...
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   Comparing medical treatments for miscarriage with waiting for nature to take its course or using surgery to empty the womb
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Miscarriage is when a pregnant woman loses her baby before the baby would be considered able to survive outside the womb, i.e. before 24 weeks' gestation. Miscarriage occurs in about 10% to 15% of pregnancies and the signs are bleeding usually with som...
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Uterine muscle relaxant drugs for threatened miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Not enough evidence to say if drugs that relax the muscles of the uterus can prevent threatened miscarriage. Miscarriage is the loss of a baby in the very early weeks of pregnancy (before 20 weeks), before the baby would be able to survive on its own. T...
Date:   Sep 2009
Title:   Progestogen for preventing miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   No evidence that progestogen can prevent miscarriage. Hormones called progestogens prepare the womb (uterus) to receive and support the newly fertilised egg. It has been suggested that some women who miscarry may not make enough progesterone, so supplem...
Date:   Jan 2008
Title:   Not enough evidence on routine antibiotics to prevent infection for women seeking care after incomplete abortion, but a single dose may be more suitable
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Incomplete abortions cause many complications and the deaths of tens of thousands of women each year. Women who seek health care after an incomplete abortion usually come for problems from bleeding too much or infection. Antibiotics are generally given ...
Date:   Jul 2007
Title:   Medical treatment for early fetal death (less than 24 weeks)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Medical treatments for inevitable miscarriage. Pregnancies that miscarry can sometimes be identified earlier at an ultrasound scan if the loss is due to the baby having died or no baby having developed. In the past, treatment before 14 weeks has usually...
Date:   Apr 2006
Title:   Immunotherapy for recurrent miscarriage
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Immunotherapy does not lower the risk of future miscarriage in women who repeatedly miscarry. Recurrent miscarriage is three or more consecutive early miscarriages. One theory is that for some women, this might be caused by an immune system response to ...
Date:   Jan 2006
Title:   Prevention of recurrent miscarriage for women with antiphospholipid antibody or lupus anticoagulant
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Treatments for recurrent miscarriage when there are antibodies in the mothers blood. Miscarriage can be very distressing for parents and their families. Miscarriage is sometimes associated with substances in the mother blood called 'antiphospholipid ant...
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Pulsatile gonadotrophin releasing hormone for ovulation induction in subfertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Women with polycystic ovary syndrome have menstrual disorders caused by the absence of ovulation. About 20% of women will not ovulate on clomiphene citrate, the primary treatment option. These women can be treated with a surgical procedure like laparosc...
Date:   Jul 2003
Title:   Oestrogen supplementation, mainly diethylstilbestrol, for preventing miscarriages and other adverse pregnancy outcomes
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Diethylstilbestrol during pregnancy poses serious long-term risks for those exposed in the womb and offers no known benefit for mothers and children. Diethylstilbestrol (DES), an oestrogen, was for decades widely believed to prevent miscarriage and othe...
Date:   Apr 2003
Title:   Cervical stitch (cerclage) for preventing pregnancy loss in women
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   Cervical stitch (cerclage) may help prevent miscarriage due to a cervical factor, but has not been shown to benefit other women. The cervix (opening of the uterus) normally stays tightly closed during pregnancy. Occasionally it starts to open early, lea...
Date:   Sep 2002
Title:   Gonadotrophin therapy for ovulation induction in subfertility associated with polycystic ovary syndrome
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration
Description:   The polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is associated with multiple peripheral ovarian cysts and anovulatory menstrual cycles, which can result in subfertility. Oral anti-oestrogens may restore ovulation in approximately 50% of cases. The remainder may ben...
Date:   May 2000

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