Elective single day 3 embryo transfer halves the twinning rate without decrease in the ongoing pregnancy rate of an IVF/ICSI programme

Human Reproduction

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 2626-2631

  Gerris, Jan ^a   De Neubourg, Diane ^a   Mangelschots, Katelijne ^a   Van Royen, Eric ^a   Vercruyssen, Miet ^a   Barudy Vasquez, Jorge ^a   Valkenburg, Marion ^a   Ryckaert, Greet ^a  

^a MIDDELHEIM HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Elective single embryo transfer; Twin pregnancy prevention

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CATHETER; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; DESENSITIZATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ELECTIVE SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE DONATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 0036799320     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/17.10.2626     Document Type: Article

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