Infertility and spontaneous abortion  - Spontaneous abortion, habitual abortion

Intrauterine mortality

Number of conceptions expected to reach each stage of pregnancy

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J Kline, Conception to birth—epidemiology of prenatal development, Monographs in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1989).

Intrauterine mortality table

Weeks after fertilization

Ongoing pregnancies

Chromosome abnormalities

0

100

 

1

82

Trisomy 17
Autosomal monosomy

2

50

 

3

 

Trisomy 16, tetraploidy

4

 

Trisomy 22

5

 

Triploidy

6

44

Monosomy X

10

40.5

 

14

38.6

 

18

38.0

 

22

37.6

 

26

37.5

 

30

37.4

 

34

37.3

 

38

37.1

 

Live births

36.9

 

Modified from Leridon H (1977) Human fertility. Chicago Press.

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