Women who experience luteal phase defects—problems with corpus luteum function—face a significantly higher risk of miscarriage. The corpus luteum's role in thickening the endometrium and producing progesterone is so foundational to early pregnancy that when it underperforms, the uterine environment cannot sustain fetal development. A single temporary structure's output can determine whether a pregnancy survives its earliest stage.
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