Can cumulative pregnancy rates be increased by freezing and thawing single embryos?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 395-400

  Prades, Marie ^a   Golmard, Jean Louis ^a   Vauthier, Danièle ^a   Lefèbvre, Gilles ^a   Poirot, Catherine ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Cryopreservation; cumulative pregnancy rate; embryo survival; implantation; single frozen embryo

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THAWING; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 59249108404     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.11.074     Document Type: Article

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