Multiple pregnancies following assisted reproductive technologies - A happy consequence or double trouble?

Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 222-227

  Murray, S R ^a   Norman, J E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive techniques; Multifetal pregnancy; Multifetal pregnancy reduction; Multiple pregnancy; Single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

BIRTH RATE; CEREBRAL PALSY; CESAREAN SECTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; HELLP SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; THERAPEUTIC ABORTION; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; FEMALE; PREGNANCY; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TWINS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TWINS;

EID: 84904790619     PISSN: 1744165X     EISSN: 18780946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.siny.2014.03.001     Document Type: Review

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