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Priyadatt Patel: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Should Be Assessed After 2 Losses
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Aug 7, 2026, 13:26

Priyadatt Patel: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Should Be Assessed After 2 Losses

Priyadatt Patel, Senior Gynecologist, Advanced Laparoscopic Surgeon, IVF and Endometriosis Programme Lead at Balaji Horizon Women’s Hospital, shared on LinkedIn:

“Being told to wait until you have lost three pregnancies before anyone will investigate is one of the harder things a couple can hear. That threshold has changed – and it’s worth knowing.

International guidance (ESHRE, 2023) now defines recurrent pregnancy loss as two or more losses, and supports beginning a structured assessment after two – not necessarily consecutive. Earlier, kinder, and more useful than waiting for a third.

A considered evaluation looks for the genuinely treatable things, or that change the plan: a clotting condition (antiphospholipid syndrome), thyroid and other hormonal factors, the shape of the uterus, and – a more recent addition to the guideline – adenomyosis. Genetic factors are weighed where relevant.

Two honest points matter as much as the tests themselves.

First, even after a complete, careful work-up, around half of recurrent losses have no identified cause. That is not a failure of testing – and ‘unexplained’  is not the same as ‘untreatable’ or ‘hopeless.’ For many couples in this group, the outlook for a future successful pregnancy is better than the fear suggests.

Second, more testing is not automatically better care. Many add-on investigations and immune ‘treatments’ marketed for miscarriage are not supported by good evidence, and ESHRE specifically advises against several of them. Where treatment does help, it is targeted: vaginal progesterone improves live-birth rates specifically for women who have both previous miscarriage(s) and current early-pregnancy bleeding – not for everyone.

Good care for recurrent loss is measured, evidence-based and honest: it investigates what is worth investigating, treats what is genuinely treatable, and offers realistic hope rather than a long list of unproven add-ons.

If you have had two or more losses, it is reasonable to ask for a structured assessment – and, of any test or treatment offered, to ask what the evidence actually shows.”

Priyadatt Patel: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Should Be Assessed After 2 Losses

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