title: Recurrent Miscarriage: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures. Guideline of the DGGG (S1-Level, AWMF Registry No. 015/050, December 2013).
abstract: Purpose:Official guideline coordinated and published by the German Society of Gynecology and Obstetrics (DGGG). Aim of the guideline was to standardize the diagnosis and treatment of patients with recurrent miscarriage (RM). Recommendations were proposed, based on the current national and international literature and the experience of the involved physicians. Consistent definitions, objective assessments and standardized therapy were applied.Methods:Members of the different involved societies developed a consensus in an informal process based on the current literature. The consensus was subsequently approved by the heads of the scientific societies.Recommendations:Recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with RM were compiled which took the importance of established risk factors such as chromosomal, anatomical, endocrine, hemostatic, psychological, infectious and immunological disorders into consideration.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Fertilitätsstörungen, Universitätsfrauenklinik Heidelberg, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Toth
authors.affiliation: Kinderwunsch Centrum München-Pasing, München.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Würfel
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe, Universitätsklinikum Mannheim, Mannheim.
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Bohlmann
authors.affiliation: Institut für Humangenetik, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Gillessen-Kaesbach
authors.affiliation: Facharzt-Zentrum für Kinderwunsch, Pränatale Medizin, Endokrinologie und Osteologie, Hamburg.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nawroth
authors.affiliation: Hormon und Kinderwunschzentrum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, München.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rogenhofer
authors.affiliation: Universitätsfrauenklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Marienhospital Herne, Herne.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tempfer
authors.affiliation: Institut für Medizinische Psychologie im Zentrum für Psychosoziale Medizin des Universitätsklinikums Heidelberg, Heidelberg.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wischmann
authors.affiliation: Inselspital, Universitätsfrauenklinik, Abteilung Gynäkologische Endokrinologie und Reproduktionsmedizin, Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: von Wolff
keywords: diagnosis; incidence; recommendation; recurrent miscarriage; therapy