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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access originally published online on March 11, 2008
Human Reproduction 2008 23(5):1232-1233; doi:10.1093/humrep/den076
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Patient attitudes towards twin pregnancies and SET: a questionnaire study

M. Garel1,2,6, B. Blondel1,2, L. Karpel3, V. Blanchet4, G. Breart1,2, R. Frydman3 and F. Olivennes5

1 INSERM, UMR S149, IFR 69, Epidemiological Research Unit on Perinatal and Women's Health, 16 Avenue P Vaillant-Couturier, Villejuif F-94807 France 2 Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris6, Paris F-75012, France 3 Hôpital Antoine Béclère, 157 rue de la Porte de Trivaux, 92141 Clamart Cedex, BP 405, France 4 Hôpital Saint Vincent-de-Paul, 74 Avenue Denfert Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France 5 15 rue Faraday, Centre de FIV Eylau La Muette, 75017 Paris, France

6 Correspondence address. E-mail: garel@vjf.inserm.fr

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Sir,

We read with great interest the article by Hojgaard et al., ‘Patient attitudes towards twin pregnancies and single embryo transfer—a questionnaire study’, in Hum Reprod 2007;22:2673–2678. The authors showed that most patients treated for infertility preferred to have twins (58%) rather than one child at a time (37.9%). The most frequent reasons given were ‘a desire for siblings, a positive attitude towards twins and a wish to have as few IVF treatments as possible’. They concluded that ‘an obligatory single embryo policy would . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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