Healthy live birth from vitrified blastocysts produced from natural cycle IVF/IVM

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 656-659

  Yang, Seong Ho ^a   Qin, Si Long ^b   Xu, Ye ^b   Yoon, San Hyun ^a   Chian, Ri Cheng ^c   Lim, Jin Ho ^a  

^a Maria Infertility Hospital   (South Korea)

^b CHINESE PLA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Immature oocyte; IVM; Natural cycle; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CASE REPORT; CONCEPTION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IN VITRO MATURATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY FOLLICLE; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE;

EID: 77952876476     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.01.013     Document Type: Article

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