Oocyte donation to women over 40 years of age: pregnancy complications.

Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol

IVF Unit, Alexandra Maternity Hospital, 1st Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Athens University Medical School, Greece.

Published: February 1996

Recently, oocyte donation to women of advanced age has led to a considerable number of conceptions, thus increasing the age limit for becoming pregnant. A main consideration encountered by physicians, though, is the potential medical and obstetric complications of a pregnancy at an advanced age. In this study, the obstetric complications, as well as the perinatal outcome, of pregnancies of aged recipients (above 40) are presented and compared to those of younger recipients. A significantly higher incidence of gestational diabetes (P < 0.001), an increased incidence of pre-eclampsia (at the 10% level of significance) and an increased risk for thrombophlebitis (again at the 10% level) was observed in the older patients, but a careful follow-up during their pregnancy led to a highly satisfactory obstetric and perinatal outcome. A rigorous precycle medical screening (especially for cardiovascular diseases and diabetes) and a careful follow-up during pregnancy is, therefore, imperative so that oocyte donation to older women is not withheld and continues to provide fertility possibilities to otherwise sterile patients.

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