title: Preliminary experience with the use of human chorionic gonadotrophin therapy in women with repeated abortion.
abstract: A preliminary study of 'screened' women with two consecutive miscarriages revealed an incidence of abortion in 47.4% in a subsequent pregnancy whilst hCG therapy in a similar group of women where biochemical monitoring with plasma progesterone suggested a potentially jeopardized pregnancy resulted in a continuing pregnancy in 92.3% of treated women. An urgent need for a true randomized double-blind evaluation of this therapy has been established in order to re-examine the therapeutic nihilism which currently pervades the management of women with recurrent abortion.
mesh_terms: D000026:Abortion, Habitual / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011374:Progesterone / Q000097:blood
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D011374:Progesterone