Birth defects after assisted reproductive technologies in China: Analysis of 15,405 offspring in seven centers (2004 to 2008)

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 458-460

  Yan, Junhao ^a,b   Huang, Guoning ^c   Sun, Yingpu ^d   Zhao, Xiaoming ^e   Chen, Shiling ^f   Zou, Shuhua ^g   Hao, Cuifang ^h   Quan, Song ^f   Chen, Zi Jiang ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Key Laboratory of Reproductive Medicine   (China)

^c Chongqing Obstetric and Gynecology Hospital   (China)

^d THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^f SOUTHERN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Qingdao Women and Children Medical Center   (China)

^h YANTAI YUHUANGDING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

artificial insemination donor (AID); artificial insemination husband (AIH); assisted reproductive technology (ART); Birth defects; cryopreserved embryo transfer (CET); in vitro fertilization (IVF); intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH DEFECT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHINA; CHINESE; CLEFT FACE; CLUBFOOT; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL TUMOR; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM MALFORMATION; EAR MALFORMATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; HYGROMA; HYPOSPADIAS; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; KIDNEY MALFORMATION; LARYNX STENOSIS; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGACOLON; NEWBORN; POLYDACTYLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; SKIN DEFECT; SYNDACTYLY; TERATOMA; TORTICOLLIS; UMBILICAL HERNIA; VALGUS KNEE;

CHINA; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 78650419851     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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