MADRID, July 1, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The first study to look at the risk of ectopic pregnancies after IVF in a complete national assisted reproductive technology register has found that women face a slightly increased risk of ectopic pregnancies after IVF.
Elizabeth Asung, an honorary research fellow at Leeds University and The Bridge Centre in London, UK, told the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology that she had analysed data from the UK’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) on 97,240 women, aged between 18-50 who underwent either straightforward IVF embryo transfer (IVF-ET) or embryo transfer after ICSI (ICSI-ET) between 1991 and 1999. She and her colleagues found that after IVF numbers of ectopic pregnancies increased by roughly a half from between 1-2% in the normal population to 2.8%. See the full release on the study: https://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256D560048AB97?OpenDocument&c=Pregnancy&count=10