Abstract:pregnancy events [2]. Clinical miscarriages may be subdivided into early clinical pregnancy losses (before gestational week 12) and late clinical pregnancy losses (gestational weeks 12 to 21). The term miscarriage is preferred rather than abortion both by patients and physicians, although "spontaneous abortion" is still used in scientific literature [3,4].For more than 30 years, controversy has existed on the number of miscarriages required to define RM and when diagnostic testing is warranted [5]
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