A case of oocyte and embryo vitrification resulting in clinical pregnancy

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2013.e5-2013.e8

  Oakes, Meghan B ^a   Gomes, Claudia Messias ^b   Fioravanti, Joyce ^b   Serafini, Paulo ^b   Motta, Eduardo L A ^b   Smith, Gary D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Huntington Centro de Medicina Reprodutiva   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; embryo vitrification; in vitro fertilization; oocyte vitrification; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOSE; INSULIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PRASTERONE SULFATE; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO VITRIFICATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTE VITRIFICATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEROLOGY; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE TUBE OCCLUSION; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 55149102412     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.03.046     Document Type: Article

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