Early cleavage predicts the viability of human embryos in elective single embryo transfer procedures

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 821-825

  Salumets, Andres ^a   Hydén Granskog, Christel ^b   Mäkinen, Sirpa ^a   Suikkari, Anne Maria ^a   Tiitinen, Aila ^b   Tuuri, Timo ^a  

^a Infertility Clinic   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Early cleavage; Embryo viability; ICSI; IVF; Single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; NAFARELIN ACETATE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL VIABILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE;

ADULT; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 0037385701     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg184     Document Type: Article

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