Blastocyst culture and transfer: Lessons from an unselected, difficult IVF population

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 220-228

  Weissman, Ariel ^a   Biran, Galia ^a   Nahum, Hana ^a   Glezerman, Marek ^b   Levran, David ^a  

^a Wolfson Medical Centre   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; Embryo transfer; Infertility; IVF ICSI outcome

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST CULTURE; BLASTOCYST STAGE TRANSFER; CLEAVAGE STAGE TRANSFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE;

EID: 49749098386     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60198-8     Document Type: Article

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