Title: Analysis of pregnancy outcomes after in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer and intracytoplasmic sperm injection
Abstract: Objective To compare pregnancy and perinatal outcomes between in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). Methods A retrospective study was carried out to measure pre-clinical and clinical abortion, ectopic pregnancies, multiple gestations, birth weight, gestational age,congenital malformation and perinatal mortality in patients receiving either IVF-ET ( n =143, group 1)or ICSI ( n =173, group 2) from January 1999 to June 2001. The outcomes of singleton and twin were compared separately. Results The maternal age, infertility duration, parity and the number of transferred embryo were comparable between the two groups. There were no significant differences in abortion rate (16.1% vs 13.3%), birth rate (65.7% vs 74.6% ) between IVF-ET and ICSI groups( P 0.05). In singleton, the rates of low birth weight, small for gestational age and pre-term birth were 1.8%,7.3%,5.5% respectively in IVF-ET group and 6.8%, 8.1%, 14.9% respectively in ICSI group. In twin, the rates of low birth weight, small for gestational age and pre-term birth were 34.2%,30.3%,42.1% respectively in IVF-ET group and 42.6%, 38.0%, 46.3% respectively in ICSI group. There were no signnificant differences between the two groups ( P 0.05). But the rates of low brith weight,small for gestational age and pre-term brith were higher in twin than in singleton ( P 0.01). The incidence of congenital malformation was 2.2% and 1.6% in IVF-ET and ICSI group respectively( P 0.05). Conclusions The pregnancy and perinatal outcomes are similar between IVF-ET and ICSI groups. Twin is the main cause of low birth weight, small for gestational age and pre-term birth.
Publication Year: 2004
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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