Multiple births from assisted reproductive technologies: A challenge that must be met

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 517-522

  Adamson, David ^a,b,c   Baker, Valerie ^a  

^a Fertility Physicians of Northern California   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FATIGUE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEARTBURN; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NAUSEA; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SLEEP; SOCIAL ASPECT; TWIN PREGNANCY; UNITED STATES; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 1642263232     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.09.041     Document Type: Note

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