Benefits and challenges brought by improved results from in vitro fertilization

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 108-117

  Jansen, R P S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Sydney IVF   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Epigenetic programming; Human in vitro fertilization; Live birth; Multiple pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BIRTH; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHROMOSOME; CONGENITAL HIP DISLOCATION; CONJOINED TWINS; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETICS; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY; OVULATION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STIMULATION; TURNER SYNDROME; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BLASTOCYST; DNA METHYLATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE;

EID: 14844310169     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2004.00759.x     Document Type: Review

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