Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom; and Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Aberdeen Medical School, Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Address reprint requests to: Roy G. Farquharson, MD, FRCOG, Liverpool Women's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Crown Street, Liverpool, L8 7SS, United Kingdom; E-mail: [email protected].
The authors wish to thank LUPUS UK and NHS R&D (NWEST) for grant support and the following people (in alphabetical order) who helped with the study: Leanne Bricker, Caron Brookfield, Claire Conlon, Craig Cowan, Paolo Dey, Andrew Drakeley, Ann-Maria Hughes, Bob Malia, Kathryn Moore, James Neilson, and Joanne Topping.
Received December 28, 2001. Received in revised form March 7, 2002. Accepted March 14, 2002.