IVF/ICSI twin pregnancies: Risks and prevention

Human Reproduction Update

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 575-593

  Pinborg, Anja ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Obstetric outcome; Single embryo transfer; Twin pregnancies; Vanishing twins

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMBASE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL WELFARE; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; OBSTETRIC CARE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TWIN PREGNANCY; ZYGOSITY;

ABNORMALITIES; ADULT; DISEASES IN TWINS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK FACTORS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TWINS;

EID: 27644493940     PISSN: 13554786     EISSN: 14602369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humupd/dmi027     Document Type: Review

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