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Analysis of the Association between In Vitro Fertilization/Assisted Conception and the Development of Retinopathy of
Jose Uberos1, Elisabeth Fernández-Marin1, Ana Campos-Martínez1
1Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, San Cecilio Clinical Hospital, School of Medicine, Granada, Spain.
Objective:
The objective is to study to what extent the development of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is associated with assisted conception (AC) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) in a tertiary referral hospital.
Materials And Methods:
This study is a retrospective observational cohort study. Very-low-birth weight (VLBW) infants with gestational age (GA) <32 weeks or birth weight <1500 g were admitted to the neonatal unit of a tertiary care hospital between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2021. The study determined the degree of ROP developed according to the type of fertilization used for conception. Main outcome measures were ROP prevalence in pregnancies obtained after IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in the period from January 1, 2011, to December 31, 2021, in a tertiary hospital.
Results:
Of the 408 infants included in the study sample, 105 (25.7%) were born following AC and 12.4% of these developed ROP. In our sample, the practice of IVF was not associated with an increase in the incidence of VLBW infants (R2 = 0.12; P = .29).
Conclusion:
Conception achieved via AC or IVF is not significantly associated with ROP in any degree of severity.
