A New Approach to Recurrent Pregnancy Loss: What Patients Need to Know

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has released updated guidance for diagnosing and treating recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) because of the risk of underdiagnosis of this distressing problem. In the past, a person was only diagnosed with RPL if she had three or more consecutive clinical losses prior to 20 weeks of pregnancy. But anyone who has had a second early loss can tell you this is something we should try to avoid.