Worldwide there are over 4,000,000 ART conceived individuals. As fertility rates ‘fall’ in some countries use of ART is increasing with rates of 1.8% of live births in the UK, 4.4% in Denmark etc. Although still the single largest threat to future ART born children is being born twin, triplet or more, other research shows that there is good grounds for monitoring of the health of these children...

A retrospective study was carried out to assess the potential of 16 hysterectomized women to achieve surrogate pregnancies. A total of 11 patients completed 16 cycles of assisted conception treatment incorporating in-vitro fertilization and gestational surrogacy. Three other women failed to respond to ovulation induction while two more patients produced few oocytes which also failed to fertiliz...

The recent increase in heterotopic pregnancies has been largely attributed to the increased use of assisted reproduction technologies. We report the rare case of a multiparous woman with a spontaneous conception resulting in a triplet heterotopic pregnancy: a twin intrauterine pregnancy and a single right tubal ectopic pregnancy. Heterotopic pregnancy is a rare and potentially life-threatening ...