Los Angeles - The fertility doctor who treated the woman who gave birth to octuplets last year, was sued again on Monday for "gross negligence" by the California Medical Board for other controversial artificial insemination treatments.
The Beverly Hills-based board accused Dr Michael Kamrava of inseminating a 48-year-old woman with seven embryos, four of which developed with three born by cesarean section and one dying in the womb.
Such a high number of embryos "should not be transferred into any woman, regardless of age," the board said in its complaint.
The board filed a similar lawsuit against Kamrava on January 4 for acting "beyond reasonable judgement" by helping Nadya Suleman conceive octuplets.
Suleman, 34, who was unmarried, unemployed and already had six children, became a tabloid fixation last January when she successfully gave birth to octuplets in Los Angeles, and was dubbed "Octomom."
In Monday's filing, the medical board said Kamrava's "grossly negligent conduct... placed (his patient) at great risk for high order gestation, which was confirmed by a quadruplet pregnancy that ended with catastrophic results."
The board also said Kamrava "never referred her or recommended that she consult with a mental health professional," even though she was close to 50 years of age, had three adult children and had undergone in vitro fertilisation with a donor she knew.
The complaint mentions other patients who underwent treatment by Kamrava, including a woman who, after becoming pregnant, discovered she had ovarian cancer, a disease for which she allegedly was never tested by Kamrava prior to her IVF treatment. - AFP