Pregnancy-related complications and adverse pregnancy outcomes in multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproductive technology: A meta-analysis of cohort studies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1492-1508.e7

  Qin, Jiabi ^a,b   Wang, Hua ^a   Sheng, Xiaoqi ^a   Liang, Desheng ^b   Tan, Hongzhuan ^b   Xia, Jiahui ^b  

^a Maternal and Child Health Hospital of Hunan Province   (China)

^b CENTRAL SOUTH UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adverse pregnancy outcomes; Assisted reproductive technology; in vitro fertilization; intracytoplasmic sperm injection; meta analysis

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANEMIA; ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYDRAMNIOS; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEONATAL RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; OLIGOHYDRAMNIOS; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; FEMALE; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COHORT STUDIES; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INFERTILITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84930929578     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.03.018     Document Type: Article

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