E.M. MIKHEEVA¹, N.I. PENKINA²

¹The First Republican Clinical Hospital, 57 Votkinskoye Shosse, Izhevsk, Russian Federation, 426039

²Izhevsk State Medical Academy, 281 Kommunarov St., Izhevsk, Russian Federation, 426034

Mikheeva E.M. — postgraduate student of the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, neonatologist, tel. +7-906-819-92-56, e-mail: alena-sher@yandex.ru

Penkina N.I. — D. Med. Sc., Professor of the Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, tel. +7-922-689-13-67, e-mail: dpenkina@yandex.ru

In the recent decades the number of children conceived with assisted reproductive technology (ART) is constantly growing, and is now about 4%. The recent scientific research is controversial and requires further investigation of the health of children born with ART. Some authors mark the high risk of infectious diseases, congenital malformation and chromosome abnormalities, infantile cerebral paralysis, perinatal pathologies, intrauterine growth retardation and prematurity in such children. Other researchers present results proving that the children born with artificial and natural impregnation have no differences in somatic health and psychoemotional development.

Key words: assisted reproductive technologies, in vitro fertilization, infertility, children’s health.

 

 

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