Why the study?
Does the presence of two ascending uterine arteries on each side correlate with increased abortions and smaller newborn infants?
Does the presence of two ascending uterine arteries on each side correlate with increased abortions and smaller newborn infants?
The anatomical variant of having two ascending uterine arteries is associated with a history of increased abortions and smaller newborn infants.
Uterine arterial variant associated with more abortions and smaller infants; hypothesis-generating, should not yet change practice.
In uteri removed at hysterectomy the uterine arteries were injected with radioopaque media and the vascular configuration was correlated with reproductive histories. Patients whose uteri had two ascending uterine arteries on each side had significantly more abortions and smaller newborn infants than patients with a single ascending branch of the uterine artery.
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