Low-dose aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids improve uterine artery blood flow velocity in women with recurrent miscarriage due to impaired uterine perfusion

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 296-300

  Lazzarin, Natalia ^a,b   Vaquero, Elena ^a,b   Exacoustos, Caterina ^a   Bertonotti, Elena ^a   Romanini, Maria Elisabetta ^a   Arduini, Domenico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

aspirin; free fatty acid; pulsatility index; recurrent spontaneous abortion; Uterine artery blood flow

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; FISH FACTOR PLUS; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUATION DISORDER; MUSCLE CRAMP; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; RECURRENT MISCARRIAGE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE CRAMPING; UTERINE PERFUSION; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ARTERIES; ASPIRIN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FEMALE; HUMANS; PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

EID: 67649126837     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.05.045     Document Type: Article

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