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. 2017 Apr 18;16(2):126-132.
doi: 10.1002/rmb2.12014. eCollection 2017 Apr.

Assisted reproductive technology in Japan: a summary report of 1992-2014 by the Ethics Committee, Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Minoru Irahara  1 , Akira Kuwahara  1 , Takeshi Iwasa  1 , Tomonori Ishikawa  2 , Osamu Ishihara  3 , Koji Kugu  4 , Rintaro Sawa  5   6 , Kouji Banno  7 , Hidekazu Saito  8
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Assisted reproductive technology in Japan: a summary report of 1992-2014 by the Ethics Committee, Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Minoru Irahara et al. Reprod Med Biol. .

Abstract

Aim: The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology implemented a registry report system for the clinical practice of assisted reproductive technology in 1986. The aggregated results from 1992 to 2014 are reported herein.

Methods and results: The total number of registered treatments was 393 745 cycles, of which 66 550 were pregnancy cycles and 46 008 were cycles with a live birth. Compared to the number of registered treatments in 2008, when the cycle-based registry was newly introduced, there was a 2.07-fold increase in the total number of treatments and a 2.25-fold increase in the number of cycles with a live birth. As the average age of patients who receive assisted reproductive technology has become markedly higher year by year, the most common age of those patients who received assisted reproductive technology in 2014 was 40 years.

Conclusion: The total numbers of both assisted reproductive technology treatments and assisted reproductive technology live births are likely to be higher in the future. In addition, the trend toward aging patients seems to be continuing into the future.

Keywords: Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology; assisted reproductive technology; in vitro fertilization; intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Age distribution of the women who were treated with assisted reproductive technology procedures in Japan in 2014. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2014 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2014data_201609.pdf)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Age distribution of the women who were treated with assisted reproductive technology procedures in Japan in 2008. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2008 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2008data_pdf.pdf)
Figure 3
Figure 3
Number of cycles in each assisted reproductive technology procedure in Japan between 1992 and 2014. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2014 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2014data_201609.pdf). FET, frozen–thawed embryo transfer; ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection; IVF, in vitro fertilization
Figure 4
Figure 4
Number of live births after assisted reproductive technology procedures in Japan between 1992 and 2014. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2014 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2014data_201609.pdf). FET, frozen–thawed embryo transfer; ICSI, intracytoplasmic sperm injection; IVF, in vitro fertilization
Figure 5
Figure 5
Rates of pregnancy, live birth, and miscarriage at each age in Japan in 2014. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2014 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2014data_201609.pdf). ET, embryo transfer
Figure 6
Figure 6
Rates of pregnancy, live birth, and miscarriage at each age in Japan in 2008. Adapted from Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology ART Databook 2008 (https://plaza.umin.ac.jp/~jsog-art/2008data_pdf.pdf). ET, embryo transfer
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