Role of embryo quality in predicting early pregnancy loss following assisted reproductive technology

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 504-509

  Hourvitz, Ariel ^a,c   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b,c   Elizur, Shai E ^a,c   Baum, Micha ^a,c   Levron, Jacob ^a,c   David, Bider ^a,c   Meirow, Dror ^a,c   Yaron, Rabinovici ^a,c   Dor, Jehoshua ^a,c  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abortion; Early pregnancy loss; Embryo quality; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL ISOLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OOCYTE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33749654043     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60637-2     Document Type: Article

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