Systemic and pulmonary vascular dysfunction in children conceived by assisted reproductive technologies

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 15, 2012, Pages 1890-1896

  Scherrer, Urs ^a,b,c   Rimoldi, Stefano F ^a   Rexhaj, Emrush ^a   Stuber, Thomas ^a   Duplain, Hervé ^d   Garcin, Sophie ^d   De Marchi, Stefano F ^a   Nicod, Pascal ^c   Germond, Marc ^e   Allemann, Yves ^a   Sartori, Claudio ^a,d  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACÁ   (Chile)

^c Hirslanden Group   (Switzerland)

^d LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^e Centre de Procreation Medicalement Assistee et d'Endocrinologie Gynecologique Lausanne   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

endothelium; hypertension, pulmonary; reproductive technologies, assisted

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; PULSE WAVE; SCHOOL CHILD; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASODILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASODILATION;

EID: 84859750007     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.071183     Document Type: Article

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