Society guideline links: Recurrent pregnancy loss

Introduction — 

This topic includes links to society and government-sponsored guidelines from selected countries and regions around the world. We will update these links periodically; newer versions of some guidelines may be available on each society's website. Some societies may require users to log in to access their guidelines.

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Links to related guidelines are provided separately. (See "Society guideline links: Pregnancy loss (spontaneous abortion)".)

Canada

●Choosing Wisely Canada: Don't prescribe corticosteroids, IVIG, leukemia inhibitory factor or lymphocyte immunization therapy for patients undergoing IVF, those with a history of recurrent implantation failure or patients with recurrent pregnancy loss (2022)

●Canadian College of Medical Geneticists (CCMG): Practice guidelines for cytogenetic analysis – Recommendations for the indications, analysis and reporting of constitutional specimens (peripheral blood, solid tissues) (2021)

●Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC): Clinical practice guideline on cervical insufficiency and cervical cerclage (2019)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on the use of first trimester ultrasound (2019)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on advanced reproductive age and fertility (2017)

●SOGC: Clinical practice guideline on the management of uterine fibroids in women with otherwise unexplained infertility (2015)

United States

●American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG): Technology assessment on sonohysterography (2016, reaffirmed 2023)

●American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM): Definition of infertility – A committee opinion (2023)

●Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM): Choosing Wisely – Don't do an inherited thrombophilia evaluation for women with histories of pregnancy loss, fetal growth restriction (FGR), preeclampsia and abruption (2022)

●ACOG: Practice bulletin on early pregnancy loss (2018, reaffirmed 2021)

●American College of Radiology (ACR): ACR Appropriateness Criteria on female infertility (revised 2019)

●ASRM: Evaluation and treatment of recurrent pregnancy loss – A committee opinion (2012)

Europe

●European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE): Guideline on recurrent pregnancy loss (2023)

United Kingdom

●National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE): Guideline on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage – Diagnosis and initial management (2019, updated 2023)

●Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG): Green-top guideline on recurrent miscarriage (2023)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on laparoscopic cerclage for cervical incompetence to prevent late miscarriage or preterm birth (2019)

●NICE: Interventional procedures guidance on hysteroscopic metroplasty of a uterine septum for recurrent miscarriage (2015)

●NICE: Quality standard on ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage (2014)

Australia–New Zealand

●Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RANZCOG): Progesterone support of the luteal phase and in the first trimester (2018)

●New South Wales Ministry of Health (NSW Health): Maternity – Management of early pregnancy complications (2012)

Japan

●[In Japanese] Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology (JSOG) and Japan Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (JAOG): Obstetrics and gynecology clinical practice guidelines – Obstetrics edition (2023)

●[In Japanese] Choosing Wisely Japan: Blood tests to check for miscarriage risk – When they may or may not help (2015)