Late stages of embryo progression are a much better predictor of clinical pregnancy than early cleavage in intracytoplasmic sperm injection and in vitro fertilization cycles with blastocyst-stage transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1041-1052

  Rehman, Khurram S ^a,b   Bukulmez, Orhan ^a,b   Langley, Martin ^a   Carr, Bruce R ^b   Nackley, Anna C ^a,b   Doody, Kathleen M ^a,b   Doody, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a Center for Assisted Reproduction   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; clinical pregnancy; early cleavage; embryo progression; in vitro fertilization; morphology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTULA; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 34247481887     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.11.014     Document Type: Article

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