IVF study rules out fetal risk.

Australian Doctor,  November, 2005  

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by Cathy Saunders

WOMEN with singleton pregnancies from assisted reproduction can be reassured their child is at no greater risk of genetic or structural abnormalities.

A prospective study of more than 36,000 singleton pregnancies found no link between ovulation induction or IVF and fetal growth restriction, aneuploidy or fetal anomalies, according to a study in Obstetrics and Gynecology (November).

However, the use of IVF more than doubled the risk of pre-eclampsia, gestational hypertension, placental abruption and caesarean delivery, and led to a sixfold increase in the ...

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