Obstetric and perinatal outcomes after either fresh or thawed frozen embryo transfer: an analysis of 112,432 singleton pregnancies recorded in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority anonymized dataset

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1703-1708

  Maheshwari, Abha ^a   Raja, Edwin Amalraj ^b   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^b  

^a NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Frozen replacement cycles; ICSI; IVF; obstetric outcomes; perinatal outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; FERTILITY; GESTATIONAL AGE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIDATION; ODDS RATIO; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84996538065     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.08.047     Document Type: Article

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