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20/01/2014
Kelly Moseley, from Birmingham, gave birth after she was given a drug which is normally used to treat malaria and rheumatoid arthritis, the BBC has reported.
Ms Moseley suffered 11 miscarriages, each at around eight weeks, before contacting a miscarriage expert she had seen on the television.
Mr Hassan Shehata met with Kelly and her husband Alan and he discovered that the woman's pregnancies were being attacked by "natural killer cells" which were present in her body. Mr Shehata chose to treat Ms Moseley with hydroxychloroquine. Initially, however, Kelly continued to miscarry until she had been taking the drug for one year and she found out she was once again pregnant. While there were complications with the pregnancy and delivery, she gave birth to a baby boy – Tyler – in April 2013. He is now nine months old.
Explaining the treatment, Mr Shehata said he and his colleagues had spent years looking at why some women were unable to carry a pregnancy full-term. He said: "We found that some women's natural killer cells are so aggressive they attack the pregnancy, thinking the foetus is a foreign body - and that's what was happening to Kelly.
"Natural killer cells can be lowered by giving some women steroids - but for Kelly this didn't work so we tried an anti-malaria treatment which also lowers the immune system."
Ms Moseley was the first patient to receive this treatment.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Shehata added that he has since treated 10 to 15 women with the drug and claims it has a 70% success rate.
"It's important to say that it's not the holy grail, it's not for treating everyone," he said. "But hydroxychloroquine has been shown to be very safe in pregnancy."
A spokesperson from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it was "interested" to hear that the drug could help women who suffer recurrent miscarriages, but that it wasn't "standard practice".
(JP/CD)
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Mother Suffers Twenty Miscarriages
A woman who suffered 20 miscarriages over a 10-year period is now a mother to a baby boy.Kelly Moseley, from Birmingham, gave birth after she was given a drug which is normally used to treat malaria and rheumatoid arthritis, the BBC has reported.
Ms Moseley suffered 11 miscarriages, each at around eight weeks, before contacting a miscarriage expert she had seen on the television.
Mr Hassan Shehata met with Kelly and her husband Alan and he discovered that the woman's pregnancies were being attacked by "natural killer cells" which were present in her body. Mr Shehata chose to treat Ms Moseley with hydroxychloroquine. Initially, however, Kelly continued to miscarry until she had been taking the drug for one year and she found out she was once again pregnant. While there were complications with the pregnancy and delivery, she gave birth to a baby boy – Tyler – in April 2013. He is now nine months old.
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Explaining the treatment, Mr Shehata said he and his colleagues had spent years looking at why some women were unable to carry a pregnancy full-term. He said: "We found that some women's natural killer cells are so aggressive they attack the pregnancy, thinking the foetus is a foreign body - and that's what was happening to Kelly.
"Natural killer cells can be lowered by giving some women steroids - but for Kelly this didn't work so we tried an anti-malaria treatment which also lowers the immune system."
Ms Moseley was the first patient to receive this treatment.
Speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live, Mr Shehata added that he has since treated 10 to 15 women with the drug and claims it has a 70% success rate.
"It's important to say that it's not the holy grail, it's not for treating everyone," he said. "But hydroxychloroquine has been shown to be very safe in pregnancy."
A spokesperson from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said it was "interested" to hear that the drug could help women who suffer recurrent miscarriages, but that it wasn't "standard practice".
(JP/CD)
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