Case report: Successful delivery following the transfer of a human re-vitrified day-7 spontaneously hatched blastocyst developed from vitrified cleaved embryos

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 405-409

  Hiraoka, Kenichiro ^a   Hiraoka, Kaori ^a   Horiuchi, Toshitaka ^b   Kusuda, Tomoyo ^a   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; Hatched; Repeated cryopreservation; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HATCHING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NIDATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

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

EID: 70349974443     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-009-9333-7     Document Type: Article

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