What is Miscarriage?
What is Miscarriage?
- Miscarriage: Loss of fetus without human interference.
- Miscarriage: the natural premature expulsion from the uterus of the products of conception, the embryo, or non-viable fetus.
Source - Diseases Database
- Miscarriage: a natural loss of the products of conception.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Miscarriage: Introduction
Types of Miscarriage:
Broader types of Miscarriage:
How serious is Miscarriage?
Complications of Miscarriage:
see complications of Miscarriage
What causes Miscarriage?
Causes of Miscarriage: see causes of Miscarriage
Cause of Miscarriage: May be caused by a fetal defect, problem with uterine environment, or some fever or infection.
Risk factors for Miscarriage:
see
risk factors for Miscarriage
What are the symptoms of Miscarriage?
Symptoms of Miscarriage:
see symptoms of Miscarriage
Complications of Miscarriage:
see complications of Miscarriage
Miscarriage: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Miscarriage.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Miscarriage.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Miscarriage:
see treatments for Miscarriage
Research for Miscarriage:
see research for Miscarriage
Society issues for Miscarriage
Hospitalization statistics for Miscarriage:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Miscarriage:
- 0.34% (43,671) of hospital consultant episodes were for spontaneous abortion in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 98% of hospital consultant episodes for spontaneous abortion required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 100% of hospital consultant episodes for spontaneous abortion were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 77% of hospital consultant episodes for spontaneous abortion required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 0.9 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for spontaneous abortion in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Miscarriage:
Organs and body systems related to Miscarriage include:
Name and Aliases of Miscarriage
Main name of condition: Miscarriage
Other names or spellings for Miscarriage:
spontaneous abortion
Abortion, missed, Embryo loss, Recurrent abortion, Spontaneous abortion
Source - Diseases Database
Spontaneous abortion, Stillbirth
Source - WordNet 2.1
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