BACKGROUND We aimed to investigate whether multifetal pregnancies are at risk of more pregnancy complications in women of advanced age after ovum donation. METHODS Pregnancy outcome in women after ovum donation aged 40 and above was extracted. Labor and delivery data as well as antenatal records of women carrying twins were compared with those of singletons, as well as to a control group of a...

background: the outcomes of such pregnancies have been rarely evaluated in our country. a descriptive study was planned to assess the health and condition of neonates conceived with assisted techniques in a one year period. materials and methods: at royan institute, tehran, 443 women who became pregnant by one of the assisted techniques in vitro fertilization (ivf), intrauterine insemination (i...

OBJECTIVE Multifetal pregnancy reduction (MPR) is a technique developed to reduce the risks of a multifetal pregnancy. The objective of this article was to report the outcome of MPR in the largest single-center experience to date. STUDY DESIGN A computerized database was used to determine the outcome of 1000 consecutive cases patients undergoing transabdominal MPR between the years 1986 and 1...

Assisted reproductive technology has made great progress during the last three decades. After the initial enthusiasm, many ethical, legal and social issues related to the application of these procedures began to evolve. Multifetal pregnancy and fetal reduction, embryo cryopreservation, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, risks of birth defects and other adverse outcome associated with assisted r...

The purpose of this article was to evaluate the accuracy of predicting amnionicity using the number of yolk sacs by diagnostic ultrasound examination in monochorionic (MC) multifetal pregnancies between 7 + 0 and 9 + 6 gestational weeks. A total of 97 patients with MC multifetal pregnancies underwent early ultrasound examination from 2004 to 2014 at Cheil General Hospital and Women's Healthcare...

during assisted reproductive technology (art) procedures, the transfer of a single embryo dramatically reduces the rate of multiple pregnancy. proper information, therefore, should be delivered to patients before embryo transfer. in many countries, regulations limit, according to age of the patient, the number of embryos to be transferred. selective fetal reduction should not be considered as a...