Sat 26 Aug 2006
For women who have had unexplained recurrent miscarriages, treatment with aspirin or another blood-thinner to prevent blood clots seems to improve their chances of delivering a live infant, researchers in Israel report.
The formation of blood clots, or thrombosis, is believed to be one possible cause of recurrent miscarriage, they explain in
the medical journal Fertility and Sterility, but it is unclear whether prevention of thrombosis can increase live birth rates.
To investigate, Dr. Mordechai Dolitzky from Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and colleagues compared the effect of
preventing blood clots with aspirin or enoxaparin — a form of heparin — in 104 pregnant women with a history of unexplained recurrent miscarriages.