Routine morphological scoring systems in assisted reproduction treatment fail to reflect age-related impairment of oocyte and embryo quality

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 118-125

  Stensen, Mette Haug ^a   Tanbo, Tom ^a   Storeng, Ritsa ^a   Åbyholm, Thomas ^a   Fèdorcsak, Peter ^a  

^a OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

ageing; assisted reproduction; embryo; female infertility; morphology; oocyte

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLASTOMERE; CELL COUNT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTOR; ROUTINE MORPHOLOGICAL SCORING SYSTEM; SCORING SYSTEM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGING; BLASTOMERES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650168844     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.03.018     Document Type: Article

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