Recurrent fetal wastage in a woman with anti-Ro [SS-A] antibody: successful therapy with corticosteroids

ABSTRACT

This is the case of a 30-years-old woman with recurrent fetal loss at 25-27 weeks of pregnancy, who was found to have strongly positive anti-Ro [SS-A] antibody and a normal anatomical, hormonal, chromosomal and infection work-up. Treatment with corticosteroids early in the fourth pregnancy resulted in disappearance of anti-Ro [SS-A] antibody and successful delivery of a healthy baby