Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 1014-1015 , February 2010

Immunologic factors and reproductive success in women with primary repeated spontaneous abortion

  • Fulvia Gloria-Bottini, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Population Biopathology and Environmental Pathology, Department of Biopathology and Imaging Diagnostics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Fulvia Gloria-Bottini, M.D., Department of Biopathology and Imaging Diagnostics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Via Montpellier 1, 00233 Rome, Italy (FAX: +39-06-72596028).
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  • Maria Nicotra, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
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  • Andrea Magrini, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Population Biopathology and Environmental Pathology, Department of Biopathology and Imaging Diagnostics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” School of Medicine, Rome, Italy
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  • Egidio Bottini, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Human Population Biopathology and Environmental Pathology, Department of Biopathology and Imaging Diagnostics, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” School of Medicine, Rome, Italy

Received 18 April 2009 ,Revised 3 August 2009 ,Accepted 3 August 2009.

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 G.-B.F. has nothing to disclose. N.M. has nothing to disclose. M.A. has nothing to disclose. B.E. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)03463-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.08.007

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 93, Issue 3 , Pages 1014-1015 , February 2010