Symptoms and diagnosis

Symptoms:

In pregnancies less than 12 weeks

• Spontaneous miscarriage before 12 weeks
• High white blood cell count and/or Neutrophils, Monocytes (to be confirmed, a number of ladies have reported this)

In pregnancies 12+ weeks

• Restricted fetal growth (severe) IUGR of an otherwise chromosomal normal fetus
• Reduced amniotic fluid
• Early warning of fetal growth restriction is a marked slowed down in growth
• Abnormal Doppler studies showing indicating redistribution, intermittent absent flow and then eventually reverse end diagnosic flow

How can we check this diagnosis?

At this time the only way to check for this diagnosis is to have an assessment of the placenta following birth or miscarriage by a pathologist who will cite CHI through checking the placenta.
It is also important to ask the Pathologist to perform CD68 Immunostaining to check the levels of this particular cell. Sufferers will have elevated numbers of these cells in the placenta.

Sources:
Boyd and Redline (“Chronic histiocytic intervillositis: a placental lesion associated with recurrent reproductive loss” Human Pathology 2000 Nov 31(11):1389-96)

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