Selected single blastocyst transfers maintained pregnancy outcome and eliminated multiple pregnancies

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 13-18

  Kuramoto, Takeshi ^a,b   Boediono, Arief ^b   Egashira, Akiyoshi ^a,b   Motoishi, Mutsuro ^a,b   Sugioka, Michiyo ^a,b   Fukuda, Kimiko ^a   Higashijima, Toki ^a   Yoshioka, Naomi ^a   Rajamahendran, Rajadurai ^b  

^a Kuramoto Women's Clinic   (Japan)

^b Fukuoka Research Institute for Reproductive Medicine   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Cleavage transfer; Multiple pregnancy; Selected single blastocyst transfer

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FERTINORM P; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BLASTOCYST; CELL CULTURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOUBLE BLASTOCYST TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SELECTED SINGLE BLASTOCYST TRANSFER; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TECHNIQUE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWIN PREGNANCY;

EID: 20444388344     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2004.00046.x     Document Type: Article

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