Optimizing the number of blastocyst stage embryos to transfer on day 5 or 6 in women 38 years of age and older: a Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology database study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 157-166

  Stern, Judy E ^a   Goldman, Marlene B ^a   Hatasaka, Harry ^b   MacKenzie, Todd A ^a   Racowsky, Catherine ^c   Surrey, Eric S ^d  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d National Foundation for Fertility Research   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced maternal age; ART outcome; blastocyst transfer; delivery rate; multiple pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYTE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TWINS; VAGINAL DELIVERY;

ADULT; AGING; BLASTOCYST; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TWINS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 57849160824     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.023     Document Type: Article

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