Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Orazulike NC
• Oriji VK
• Fiebai PO

Titel

Live birth afterin vitro fertilization (ivf) in a 53 year old woman：A case report

Ist Teil von

• 急性病杂志（英文版）, 2013 (4), p.334-336

Ort / Verlag

Department of 0bstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Nigeria

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• To report a case of live birth in a53 year old woman following assisted reproductive techniques (ART).A53-year-old civil servant who registered for antenatal care at theUniversity ofPort HarcourtTeachingHospital(UPTH) in2008 at17 weeks gestation is presented.She had conceived after4 years of infertility follow treatment by intracytoplasmic sperm injection/embryo transfer (ICSI-ET) using her husband’s sperm and donor eggs.The pregnancy was complicated by breech presentation at term.She was delivered of a healthy live male infant by elective caesarean section at38 weeks of gestation.The puerperium was complicated by hypertension, which was managed appropriately.Infertility in women of advanced reproductive age can be successfully treated with donor oocytes inNigeria.Antenatal supervision and delivery by skilled attendants is the key to achieve favourable outcome.