Contrasting patterns in in vitro fertilization pregnancy rates among fresh autologous, fresh oocyte donor, and cryopreserved cycles with the use of day 5 or day 6 blastocysts may reflect differences in embryo-endometrium synchrony

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 20-26

  Shapiro, Bruce S ^a,b   Daneshmand, Said T ^a,b   Garner, Forest C ^a,b   Aguirre, Martha ^a   Ross, Richard ^a  

^a Fertility Center Las Vegas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blastocyst transfer; endometrial receptivity; IVF; Ovarian stimulation; synchrony

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; EVENING DOSAGE; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049165976     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2006.08.092     Document Type: Article

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