Determination of Clinical Cellular Immune Markers in Women with Recurrent Pregnancy Loss

Dysregulated natural killer (NK) immunity and T‐cell immunity are associated with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL). We aim to define clinically relevant NK and T‐cell parameters for RPL and determine their cutoff values.

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