Comparative analysis of perinatal outcome of spontaneous pregnancy reduction and multifetal pregnancy reduction in triplet pregnancies conceived after assisted reproductive technique

Comparative analysis of perinatal outcome of spontaneous pregnancy reduction and multifetal pregnancy reduction in triplet pregnancies conceived after assisted reproductive technique

INTRODUCTION With the advent of assisted reproductive treatment options, the incidence of multiple pregnancies has increased. Although the need for elective single embryo transfer is emphasized time and again, its uniform applicability in practice is yet a distant goal. In view of the fact that triplet and higher order pregnancies are associated with significant fetomaternal complications, the ...

Pregnancy outcome after multifetal pregnancy reduction to twins compared with spontaneously conceived twins.

Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MFPR) appears to be an efficacious method for improving the perinatal outcome of 'high order' multifetal gestations. The present study was undertaken to evaluate pregnancy outcomes after MFPR to twins in comparison with spontaneously conceived twins. In all, 10 patients with quadruplet gestation (group 1) and 30 patients with triplet gestation (group 2), who unde...

Multifetal pregnancy reduction: modification of the technique and analysis of the outcome.

OBJECTIVE To modify the technique of multifetal pregnancy reduction and to study the outcome of reduced twins in comparison with nonreduced twins and high-order multiple gestations. DESIGN Prospective controlled study. SETTING The Egyptian IVF-ET Center, Cairo. PATIENT(S) Seventy-five patients with high-order multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproduction. Controls were 40 nonr...

comparison of twin pregnancy outcome after assisted reproductive technology with and without embryo reduction

background: spontaneous occurrences of multifetal pregnancies always have been a medical problem. the risks of perinatal morbidity and mortality and maternal morbidity increase with enhancement of the number of fetuses. in our prospective experimental study, the outcome of twin pregnancy after assisted reproductive technologies (art) with and without multifetal pregnancy reduction (mfpr) is com...

Multifetal pregnancy reduction in assisted reproductive technologies: a license to kill?