Maternal and child outcome after in vitro fertilization - A review of 25 years of population-based data from Sweden

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 494-500

  Finnström, Orvar ^a   Källén, Bengt ^b   Lindam, Anna ^c   Nilsson, Emma ^c   Nygren, Karl Gaösta ^d   Olausson, Petra Otterblad ^c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LUND   (Sweden)

^c NATIONAL BOARD OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Sweden)

^d Sophiahemmet Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

In vitro fertilization; long term morbidity; multiple births; neonatal outcome; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; ASTHMA; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BENIGN CHILDHOOD EPILEPSY; BLASTOCYST; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CANCER RISK; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INFANT; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; SWEDEN; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REGISTRIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 79955060572     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: 16000412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0412.2011.01088.x     Document Type: Article

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