Do Eggs Matured In The Laboratory Result In Babies With Large Offspring Syndrome?
Rome, Italy: A review of studies of babies born after in vitro maturation (IVM) fertility treatment has suggested that they are more likely to be born larger than normal and to have more difficult births requiring more obstetric interventions such as caesareans. Authors of the literature review to be presented to the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome today (Wednesday) believe that this may be a problem associated with the IVM process in which immature eggs are retrieved from a womans ovaries and matured in the lab before being fertilised and any resulting embryos transferred to the womans uterus. They have urged caution in the use of IVM until further studies can clarify their findings. Dr Peter Sjblom, unit manager of Nurture, the Nottingham University IVF clinic at Queens Medical Centre (Nottingham, UK), said: We looked at four different data sets from four different countries and, although the numbers were small and differences
