In spontaneous conception, the one follicle that has become dominant that cycle is fertilised by the sperm that has beaten all the others in a race. There have been millions of sperm released during the ejaculation. The concept of natural selection is dependent on the idea that the fittest survive. Infertility treatment, particularly IVF, ICSI and cryopreservation circumvent natural selection. There has been understandable concern that these infertility treatments may be associated with an increased risk of congenital abnormality. Reassuringly, however, results reported from around the world indicate that there is no major increase in the rate of babies being born with abnormality.
Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-
- Follow-up of children born after ICSI. (2002)
- Outcome and follow-up of children born after IVF-surrogacy (2001)
- Pregnancy and child outcome after oocyte donation (2001)
- Follow-up studies of children born after frozen sperm donation (2001)
- Review: Parent-child relationships and child development in donor insemination families (2001)
- Health of 227 children born after controlled ovarian stimulation for in vitro fertilization using the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone antagonist cetrorelix (2001)
- Obstetric outcome and follow-up of children born after in vitro fertilization (IVF) (2000)
- Incidence of congenital malformations in children born after ICSI. (2000)information?
- The psychological status at school age of children conceived by in-vitro fertilization. (1999)
- Infants conceived using in-vitro fertilization do not over-utilize health care resources after the neonatal period. (1998)
- Stigma, disclosure, and family functioning among parents of children conceived through donor insemination (1997)
- Follow-up of a cohort of 422 children aged 6 to 13 years conceived by in vitro fertilization (1997)
- Donor insemination: Child development and family functioning in lesbian mother families (1997)
- Obstetric and perinatal outcome of pregnancies following intracytoplasmic sperm injection (1996)
- Intelligence and behaviour in children born after in-vitro fertilization treatment (1996)
- Growth and physical outcome of children conceived by in vitro fertilization (1996)
- Assisted reproduction: A reassuring picture (1996)
- The European study of assisted reproduction families: Family functioning and child development (1996)
- Pregnancy outcome following exposure to gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogue during early pregnancy: Comparisons in patients with normal or elevated luteinizing hormone (1995)
- Outcome in children from cryopreserved embryos (1995)
- Birth characteristics and perinatal outcome of babies conceived from cryopreserved embryos (1994)
- A controlled study of the psycho-social development of children conceived following insemination with donor semen (1993)
- Early miscarriage and fetal malformations after induction of ovulation (by clomiphene citrate and/or human menotropins), in vitro fertilization, and gamete intrafallopian transfer (1991)
- Perinatal outcome and congenital malformations in in-vitro fertilization babies from the Bourn-Hallam group (1991)
Please click on the required question.
- 1 How successful is infertility treatment?
- 2 How can we compare infertility treatments?
- 3 How can we compare outcomes between different fertility units?
- 4 Are treatments for infertility improving?
- 5 Is there an increased chance of miscarriage following infertility treatment?
- 6 Is there an increased chance of ectopic pregnancy following infertility treatment?
- 7 What is a heterotopic pregnancy?
- 8 What problems can occur with multiple pregnancy?
- 9 What is selective termination of pregnancy?
- 10 How can the pregnancy risks following infertility treatment be reduced?
- 11 We have had infertility treatment which has been successful. How will our pregnancy be cared for?
- 12 If we have infertility treatment, will our baby be healthy?
- 13 What are the psychological effects of infertility? information?
- 14 Where can I obtain more information?
- 15 Infertility Support Groups.
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