Reproductive outcomes after assisted conception

Obstetrical and Gynecological Survey

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 566-583

  Talaulikar, Vikram Sinai ^a   Arulkumaran, Sabaratnam ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; BECKWITH WIEDEMANN SYNDROME; BLASTOCYTE; BODY MASS; BRAIN TUMOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; HAPPY PUPPET SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LABOR INDUCTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LYMPHOMA; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL STRESS; MICROMANIPULATION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEPHROBLASTOMA; NEUROBLASTOMA; OOCYTE DONATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; RETINOBLASTOMA; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VITRIFICATION;

CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CULTURE MEDIA; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84866652099     PISSN: 00297828     EISSN: 15339866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OGX.0b013e31826a5d4a     Document Type: Review

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