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From The Times February 14, 2009
New patient of octuplets doctor 'is pregnant with quadruplets'
Michael Kamrava is reported to have treated the unnamed woman at his clinic in Beverly Hills
Sam Lister, Health Editor
The fertility specialist who helped a woman to conceive octuplets has also treated a patient now pregnant with quadruplets, it was claimed yesterday. Michael Kamrava, 57, is understood to have treated an unnamed woman at his clinic in Beverly Hills.
The woman, 49, who has three adult children, is about five months pregnant and has been admitted to hospital, where she is expected to remain until the birth. It is understood that Dr Kamrava implanted at least seven embryos from donor eggs into the woman. Fertility guidelines recommend that no more than five embryos should be transferred into IVF patients over the age of 40. British IVF clinics generally are barred from implanting more than two at once, and are encouraged to transfer only one.
Dr Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Medical Board of California after Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets last month. Women of Ms Suleman’s age should have a maximum of two embryos implanted, under US guidelines. Dr Kamrava is alleged to have ignored the directives, transferring six embryos into the single woman, who already had six children at the time of the octuplets’ conception. Two of the embryos split, according to Miss Suleman, resulting in the birth of six boys and two girls last month.
The LA Times reported that the 49-year-old woman wanted a baby with her new husband, believed to be almost 20 years her junior. It is understood that she has been admitted to the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Centre from the Good Samaritan hospital because she does not have adequate medical insurance.
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The woman asked the newspaper for her privacy to be respected. She refused to confirm that Dr Kamrava had treated her and said that doctors had advised her to avoid talking to the media because she was already going through a “high-stress pregnancy”.
Even twin and triplet pregnancies involve considerably raised risks to health, which include stillbirth, prematurity and cerebral palsy for the infants and preeclampsia and death for the mother. In larger multiple pregnancies, the hazards grow almost exponentially. Risk increases with the age of the mother. For a woman carrying triplets, the chance of giving birth to a child with cerebral palsy is 47 times higher than if she were carrying a single child.
State records show that there are only 14 quadruplet births a year in California. The octuplets are the longest-surviving set of eight babies born in America According to federal records, Dr Kamrava’s West Coast IVF Clinic has one of
the worst success rates of any clinic in the country. Of the 61 procedures conducted in 2006, only two resulted in births – one of which was that of Ms Suleman’s twins. All of the former psychiatric technician’s 14 children were conceived at Dr Kamrava’s clinic, using donor sperm.
Dr Kamrava has declined to comment on the quadruplets pregnancy, or on his treatment of Ms Suleman. The Good Samaritan and USC Hospitals also refused to speak about the 49-year-old expectant mother.
Michael Kamrava is reported to have treated the unnamed woman at his clinic in Beverly Hills
Sam Lister, Health Editor
The fertility specialist who helped a woman to conceive octuplets has also treated a patient now pregnant with quadruplets, it was claimed yesterday. Michael Kamrava, 57, is understood to have treated an unnamed woman at his clinic in Beverly Hills.
The woman, 49, who has three adult children, is about five months pregnant and has been admitted to hospital, where she is expected to remain until the birth. It is understood that Dr Kamrava implanted at least seven embryos from donor eggs into the woman. Fertility guidelines recommend that no more than five embryos should be transferred into IVF patients over the age of 40. British IVF clinics generally are barred from implanting more than two at once, and are encouraged to transfer only one.
Dr Kamrava is under investigation by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) and the Medical Board of California after Nadya Suleman, 33, gave birth to octuplets last month. Women of Ms Suleman’s age should have a maximum of two embryos implanted, under US guidelines. Dr Kamrava is alleged to have ignored the directives, transferring six embryos into the single woman, who already had six children at the time of the octuplets’ conception. Two of the embryos split, according to Miss Suleman, resulting in the birth of six boys and two girls last month.
The LA Times reported that the 49-year-old woman wanted a baby with her new husband, believed to be almost 20 years her junior. It is understood that she has been admitted to the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Centre from the Good Samaritan hospital because she does not have adequate medical insurance.
Related Links
Briton tells of ‘secretive’ octuplets doc
Octuplets' mother may have had multiple IVF
The woman asked the newspaper for her privacy to be respected. She refused to confirm that Dr Kamrava had treated her and said that doctors had advised her to avoid talking to the media because she was already going through a “high-stress pregnancy”.
Even twin and triplet pregnancies involve considerably raised risks to health, which include stillbirth, prematurity and cerebral palsy for the infants and preeclampsia and death for the mother. In larger multiple pregnancies, the hazards grow almost exponentially. Risk increases with the age of the mother. For a woman carrying triplets, the chance of giving birth to a child with cerebral palsy is 47 times higher than if she were carrying a single child.
State records show that there are only 14 quadruplet births a year in California. The octuplets are the longest-surviving set of eight babies born in America According to federal records, Dr Kamrava’s West Coast IVF Clinic has one of
the worst success rates of any clinic in the country. Of the 61 procedures conducted in 2006, only two resulted in births – one of which was that of Ms Suleman’s twins. All of the former psychiatric technician’s 14 children were conceived at Dr Kamrava’s clinic, using donor sperm.
Dr Kamrava has declined to comment on the quadruplets pregnancy, or on his treatment of Ms Suleman. The Good Samaritan and USC Hospitals also refused to speak about the 49-year-old expectant mother.
From The Times February 14, 2009
