Blastocyst culture is associated with an elevated incidence of monozygotic twinning after single embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 2140-2142

  Kawachiya, Satoshi ^a   Bodri, Daniel ^b   Shimada, Naoko ^c   Kato, Keiichi ^a   Takehara, Yuji ^a   Kato, Osamu ^a  

^a Kato Ladies Clinic   (Japan)

^b Clinica EUGIN   (Spain)

^c Shinbashi Yume Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

blastocyst culture; frozen thawed embryo transfer; in vitro fertilization; minimal stimulation; Monozygotic twinning; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; CELLS, CULTURED; COHORT STUDIES; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TWINNING, MONOZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 79955017169     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.12.018     Document Type: Article

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