Influence of patient age on the growth and transfer of blastocyst-stage embryos

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 700-705

  Shapiro, Bruce S ^a,c   Richter, Kevin S ^a   Harris, Dee C ^a   Daneshmand, Said T ^a,b  

^a Fertility Center of Las Vegas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Fertility Center Las Vegas   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst expansion; Blastocyst transfer; Fertilization; Implantation rate; In vitro fertilization; Oocyte retrieval; Patient age; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO GROWTH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; MIDDLE AGED; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BLASTOCYST; CELL COUNT; CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036009797     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)03251-4     Document Type: Article

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