Vitrified-warmed blastocyst transfer cycles yield higher pregnancy and implantation rates compared with fresh blastocyst transfer cycles - Time for a new embryo transfer strategy?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1691-1695

  Zhu, Dandan ^a   Zhang, Juanjuan ^a   Cao, Shanren ^a   Zhang, Junqiang ^a   Heng, Boon Chin ^b   Huang, Meiling ^a   Ling, Xiufeng ^a   Duan, Tao ^c   Tong, Guo Qing ^a,c  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blastocyst transfer; clinical pregnancy; implantation; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VITRIFICATION;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; PERIODICITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 79952991096     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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