Optimizing embryo selection with day 5 transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 609-615

  Reh, Andrea ^a   Fino, Elizabeth ^a   Krey, Lewis ^a   Berkeley, Alan ^a   Noyes, Nicole ^a   Grifo, James ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; extended culture; implantation; in vitro fertilization; multiple pregnancy; selective reduction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETAL DEATH; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY REDUCTION, MULTIFETAL; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74449089131     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.070     Document Type: Article

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