Programmatic implementation of blastocyst transfer in a university-based in vitro fertilization clinic: maximizing pregnancy rates and minimizing triplet rates

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 294-300

  Grifo, James A ^a   Flisser, Eric ^a   Adler, Alexis ^a   McCaffrey, Caroline ^b   Krey, Lewis C ^a   Licciardi, Frederick ^a   Noyes, Nicole ^a   Kump, Lisa M ^a   Berkeley, Alan S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Oral Health Services Research Unit   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRIPLETS; TWINS;

EID: 34547683365     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.10.005     Document Type: Article

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