A prospective, randomized trial on the effect of atmospheric versus reduced oxygen concentration on the outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 511-519

  Kovačič, Borut ^a   Sajko, Mojca Čižek ^a   Vlaisavljević, Veljko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Embryo development; low oxygen; poor responders; pregnancy rate; prospective randomized study

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIDATION; OXYGEN CONCENTRATION; OXYGEN TENSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

AIR; BLASTOCYST; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 77953728018     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.03.077     Document Type: Article

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