The impact of vanishing fetuses on the outcome of ICSI pregnancies.
Vanishing fetal twins occurred in 9% (264 out of 2,829) intracytoplasmic sperm injection pregnancies and are associated with a lower fetal loss rate in the first trimester. The live birth rate was higher in pregnancies associated with vanishing fetuses.
Mansour
Ragaa
R
The Egyptian IVF-ET Center, Cairo, Egypt. ragaa.mansour@gmail.com
Serour
Gamal
G
Aboulghar
Mohamed
M
Kamal
Omnia
O
Al-Inany
Hesham
H
D037881:Aborted Fetus / Q000502:physiology; D000328:Adult; D020964:Embryo Loss / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome / Q000453:epidemiology; D011272:Pregnancy, Multiple / Q000502:physiology; D011379:Prognosis; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014427:Twins