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‘Vanishing embryo syndrome’ in IVF/ICSI
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‘Vanishing embryo syndrome’ in IVF/ICSI

Dorte Hvidtjørn, Jakob Grove, Diana Schendel, Michael Væth, Erik Ernst, Lene Nielsen and Poul Thorsen
Human reproduction (Oxford), v 20(9), pp 2550-2551
Sep 2005
PMID: 15890728
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https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dei092View
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Abstract

cerebral palsy IVF vanishing embryo syndrome
BACKGROUND: In a Danish population-based cohort study assessing the risk of cerebral palsy in children born after IVF, we made some interesting observations regarding ‘vanishing co-embryos’. METHODS and RESULTS: All live-born children born in Denmark from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000 were included in this analysis. The children conceived by IVF/ICSI (9444) were identified through the IVF Register, the children conceived without IVF/ICSI (395 025) were identified through The Danish Medical Birth Register. Main outcome measure was the incidence of cerebral palsy. Within the IVF/ICSI children we found indications of an increased risk of cerebral palsy in those children resulting from pregnancies, where the number of embryos transferred was higher than the number of children born. CONCLUSIONS: The association between vanishing embryo syndrome and incidence of cerebral palsy following IVF requires further investigation in larger, adequately powered, studies.

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