Characteristics of Recurrent Spontaneous Abortion in Al-Jumhouria Hospital Benghazi 2020

Background: Recurrent spontaneous abortion defined as three or more consecutive pregnancy loss before 24 weeks is a challenge for gynecologists because of the complex and variable etiologies behind. Exploring characteristics of patients with this condition may help researchers and clinicians. Therefore, the aim of the present work was to outline the demographic and patient history wise factors related to RSA and to analyze the association of those factors with occurrence of RSA. Methods: Case control study included cases collected from Benghazi medical center from records of deliveries January 2020 to December 2020. Statistical analysis was executed using SPSS 23.0. Results: A total of 250 cases were investigated. Among those 30 cases met the definition of RSA. The rate of explained abortion among subset with spontaneous abortion was only 10.0%. The rate of advanced maternal age among the study population was 29.2%. The rate of RSA was higher among mothers with advanced maternal age (15.1% for 10.7%). This difference was statistically insignificant (P=0.338). The history of abortion among the study population showed a rate of first trimester abortion was 36.8% and second trimester abortion as 4.8%. RSA rate was much higher among mothers with history of 1st trimester abortion (20.7% for 7.0%) with statistically significant association (P