Live birth following transfer of a cryopreserved embryo generated from a cryopreserved oocyte and a cryopreserved sperm: Case report

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 43-45

  Gook, Debra A ^a,c   Hale, Lyndon ^a,b   Edgar, David H ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MELBOURNE IVF   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cryopreserved embryo; Cryopreserved oocyte; Human; Live birth

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; DESENSITIZATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; MEIOSIS; OOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERTOLI CELL; SPERM PRESERVATION; TESTIS BIOPSY; THAWING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 33846807083     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-006-9093-6     Document Type: Article

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