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Abstract

Platelet Antibodies in Infertility Patients by Yilu Zou, Xingting Chen, Chengliang Wu, Mei Lian, Fadian Ding, Shirong Huang, Shuyu Zhang, Chen Lin, Qicai Liu, Yujia Guo, Shibin Chao

Background: Platelet antigens can stimulate the body to produce platelet alloimmune antibodies through blood transfusion, pregnancy, and autoimmunity. In the blood of pregnant women, anti-platelet antibodies can cause embryo implantation failure, abortion, etc. if they are present.
Methods: The platelet antibody was screened in 326 infertile patients (282 primary infertility and 44 secondary infertility) and 522 healthy controls in the physical examination center of our hospital by solid phase agglutination of red blood cells.
Results: The positive rate of anti-platelet antibody was 9.51% in the infertility group and 2.30% in the healthy control group. There was a significant difference between them (χ2 = 4.51, p < 0.05). The positive rate of anti-platelet antibody in the infertility group was significantly higher than that in the control group. The positive rate of anti-platelet antibody in the secondary infertility patients was significantly higher than that in the primary infertility patients (χ2 = 1.62, p < 0.05), and the positive rate of serum anti-platelet antibody increased gradually with the increase of infertility years.
Conclusions: The positive rate of anti-platelet antibody is closely related to infertility and gradually increases with the age of infertility.

DOI: 10.7754/Clin.Lab.2020.200645