Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 6 , Pages 1301-1305 , June 2007

Update on the comparison of assisted reproduction outcomes between Europe and the USA: the 2002 data

  • Norbert Gleicher, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Human Reproduction, New York, New York, and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
    • Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Norbert Gleicher, M.D., CHR, 21 East 69th Street, New York, NY 10021 (FAX: 212-994-4499).
    • ,
  • Andrea Weghofer, M.D., Ph.D

      Affiliations

    • Center for Human Reproduction, New York, New York, and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Allgemeine Krankenhaus, University of Vienna School of Medicine, Vienna, Austria
    • ,
  • David Barad, M.D., M.S.

      Affiliations

    • Center for Human Reproduction, New York, New York, and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
    • Departments of Epidemiology and Social Medicine and Obstetrics and Gynecology and Women’s Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, The Bronx, New York

Received 9 September 2006 ,Revised 15 November 2006 ,Accepted 15 November 2006.

References 

  1. Gleicher N, Weghofer A, Barad D. A formal comparison of the practice of assisted reproductive technologies between Europe and the USA. Hum Reprod. 2006;21:1945–1950
  2. Nyboe Andersen A, Gianaroli L, Felberbaum R, deMouzon J, Nygren KG European IVF monitoring programme (EIM) for the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE). Assisted reproductive technology in Europe, 2002 (Results generated from European registers by ESHRE). Hum Reprod. 2006;21:1680–1697
  3. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Pevention and Health Promotion, Division of Reproductive Health, Atlanta, Georgia, and American Society for Reproductive Medicine and Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, Birmingham, Alabama. 2002 assisted reproductive technology success rates (National summary and fertility clinic reports). Atlanta, GA: US Department of Heath and Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; 2004;
  4. German Act for the Protection of Embryos (1990). Official Gazette. 1990;1:2746
  5. Feraretti AP, Gianaroli L, Magli MC, Cetera C, Agnelo D, Farfalli VI. Medically assisted conception: an established clinical procedure? (In Italy not anymore). Hum Reprod. 2005;20(Suppl):i21–i22
  6. Gleicher N, Barad D. The relative myth of single embryo transfer. Hum Reprod. 2006;21:1337–1344
  7. Gleicher N, Oleske D, Tur-Kaspa I, Vidali A, Karande V. Reducing the risk of high order multiple pregnancy after ovarian stimulation with gonadotropins. N Engl J Med. 2000;34:2–7
  8. Gleicher N. Is it time to limit IVF transfers to one embryo?. Contemp Obstet Gynecol. 2004;48:73–85

PII: S0015-0282(06)04503-1

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.024

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 87, Issue 6 , Pages 1301-1305 , June 2007

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