Case report: Two successful pregnancies following the transfer of re-vitrified human day 7 blastocysts developed from vitrified cleaved embryos

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 9-10, 2008, Pages 503-509

  Hiraoka, Kenichiro ^a   Fujimoto, Yumi ^a   Tateaki, Yuko ^a   Hiraoka, Kaori ^a   Horiuchi, Toshitaka ^b   Okano, Shinichiro ^a   Kinutani, Masayuki ^a   Kinutani, Kazuo ^a  

^a Kinutani Women's Clinic   (Japan)

^b PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF HIROSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Day 7; Human; Repeated cryopreservation; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CASE REPORT; CELL MATURATION; CELL TRANSFER; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 55549106769     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-008-9259-5     Document Type: Article

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