Cumulative ongoing pregnancy rate achieved with oocyte vitrification and cleavage stage transfer without embryo selection in a standard infertility program

Human Reproduction

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1199-1205

  Ubaldi, Filippo ^a   Anniballo, Reno ^b   Romano, Stefania ^a   Baroni, Elena ^a   Albricci, Laura ^a   Colamaria, Silvia ^a   Capalbo, Antonio ^a   Sapienza, Fabio ^a   Vajta, Gábor ^c   Rienzi, Laura ^a  

^a GENERA Centre for Reproductive Medicine   (Italy)

^b Andrology Center 'John McLeod'   (Italy)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cumulative pregnancy; Female age; ICSI; Oocyte vitrification

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; CELL STIMULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 77951128447     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deq046     Document Type: Article

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