[Medical social features of women subjected to extra-corporal fertilization]

Abstract

In municipal Center of human reproduction, city of Almaty, medical social examination of 419 women subjected to extra-corporal fertilization was organized. Clinical statistical evaluation of health of their new-born infants was carried out. It is established that females, suffering of sterility and resorting to extra-corporal fertilization, are attributed with peculiar social medical features. Mostly, these are women aged of 25-35 years, employee or housewife, highly educated, religious, living in registered or civil marriage, not poor and residing in good housing conditions. Girls are born morefrequently following the pregnancy due to extra-corporal fertilization. In comparison with population, twins are born 20 times more often, triplets--45 times more often, premature newborns--4 times more often. In addition, 39.5% of infants are born in severe and medium severe health conditions. Artificial pulmonary ventilation is needed for 29.4% of infants. Mean body mass and body height of newborns is slightly lower than in case of newborns following common pregnancy. Infants of the first year of life don't differ in their physical and mental development from their coevals. However, up to the first year of life, 28.9% of them enter group of lingering and often frequently ill patients and yet 28.2% of them suffer from chronic diseases.