Pregnancy rate, multiple pregnancy rate, and embryo quality: Clues for single blastocyst transfer from double blastocyst transfer in an unselected population

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 153-160

  Hara, Tetsuaki ^a   Katsuki, Takafumi ^a   Kusuda, Tomoyo ^a   Ohama, Koso ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Embryo quality; Implantation rate; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21344443309     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2005.00094.x     Document Type: Article

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