Successful multiple pregnancy achieved after transfer of frozen embryos obtained via intracytoplasmic sperm injection with testicular sperm from an AZFc-deleted man

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2330.e1-2330.e3

  Gambera, Laura ^a   Governini, Laura ^a   De Leo, Vincenzo ^a   Luddi, Alice ^a   Morgante, Giuseppe ^a   Tallis, Valeria ^a   Piomboni, Paola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

AZFc deletion; azoospermia; frozen embryos; ICSI; successful pregnancy; TESE; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; AZOOSPERMIA GENE; CASE REPORT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION; FREEZE THAWING; GENE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPERMIOGRAM; TESTICULAR SPERM EXTRACTION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 78049393388     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.03.069     Document Type: Article

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