Optimizing the number of cleavage stage embryos to transfer on day 3 in women 38 years of age and older: a Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology database study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 767-776

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

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c National Foundation for Fertility Research   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced maternal age; Assisted reproductive technology outcome; delivery rate; embryo transfer; multiple pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATA BASE; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIPLE BIRTH OFFSPRING; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61349176607     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.12.051     Document Type: Article

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