Single fresh and frozen-thawed blastocyst transfer using hyaluronan-rich transfer medium

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 701-707

  Korosec, Sara ^a   Virant Klun, Irma ^a   Tomazevic, Tomaz ^a   Zech, Nicolas H ^b   Meden Vrtovec, Helena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Endocrinology   (Austria)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Hyaluronan; Single blastocyst transfer; Single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HYALURONIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 37349076879     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60538-X     Document Type: Article

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