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Multiple birth risks associated with IVF and extended embryo culture: USA, 2001
1 President, 2 Immediate Past President, 3 President-Elect, 4 Vice-President and Research Committee Chairman, Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology
5 To whom correspondence should be addressed. Eric S.Surrey, M.D., 799 E. Hampden Ave, #300, Englewood, C0 80113, USA. E-mail: Esurrey@colocrm.com
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Sir,
We reviewed the manuscript by Kissin et al. (2005)
with great interest. The authors suggest variations in live birth and multiple pregnancy rates across various patient groups who underwent embryo transfer with cleavage stage embryos on day 3 or blastocyst stage embryos on day 5 without significant differences. The authors analysed the data according to the day of embryo transfer and whether or not supernumerary embryos were frozen. There are several issues which make interpretation of the conclusions somewhat challenging. The