Offering excess oocyte aspiration and vitrification to patients undergoing stimulated artificial insemination cycles can reduce the multiple pregnancy risk and accumulate oocytes for later use

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1213-1218

  Stoop, D ^a   Van Landuyt, L ^a   Paquay, R ^b   Fatemi, H ^a   Blockeel, C ^a   De Vos, M ^a   Camus, M ^a   Van Den Abbeel, E ^a   Devroey, P ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Department of Gynaecology   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Excess oocyte; Intrauterine insemination; Oocyte vitrification; Polycystic ovary syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR ASPIRATION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MICROSCOPY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE FLUID; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURITY; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 77951120497     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq026     Document Type: Article

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