Elective single embryo transfer versus double embryo transfer in assisted reproduction

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 82-87

  Moustafa, Mohamed Khaled ^a   Sheded, Sheded Ashour ^a,b,c   El Aziz Mousta, Mohamed Abd ^a  

^a Dr Erfan and Bagedo General Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

^b AL AZHAR UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Cryo embryo transfer; Follow up; Live birth rates; Pregnancy rates; Randomized controlled trial; Single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PERGNYL; PERGYNYL; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOBIOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; DOUBLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; ELECTIVE SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCTION;

EID: 48249119577     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60297-0     Document Type: Article

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