Clinical Study

Singleton Pregnancy Outcomes after In Vitro Fertilization with Fresh or Frozen-Thawed Embryo Transfer and Incidence of Placenta Praevia

Table 3

Comparison of placental and amniotic abnormalities between pregnancies after frozen-thawed and fresh ET.

  Frozen-thawed ET

Number of cases
(%)
Fresh ET

Number of cases
(%)
value

Preeclampsia 2 (0.9)28 (3.1)0.098
1st trimester bleeding 14 (6.6)74 (8.1)0.570
2nd trimester bleeding 2 (0.9)27 (2.9)0.144
3rd trimester bleeding 0 (0.0)18 (2.0)0.034*
Polihydramnion 2 (0.9)7 (0.8)0.679
Oligohydramnion 3 (1.4)18 (2.0)0.781
Placenta accreta 7 (3.3)29 (3.2)0.831
Placenta praevia 0 (0.0)32 (3.5)0.002*
Retained placenta 10 (4.7)34 (3.7)0.553
Manual removal of placenta 11 (5.2)51 (5.6)1.000

Statistically significant , as revealed by Chi-square.