Evidence of impaired endometrial receptivity after ovarian stimulation for in vitro fertilization: A prospective randomized trial comparing fresh and frozen-thawed embryo transfer in normal responders

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 344-348

  Shapiro, Bruce S ^a,b   Daneshmand, Said T ^a,b   Garner, Forest C ^a,b   Aguirre, Martha ^a   Hudson, Cynthia ^a   Thomas, Shyni ^a  

^a Fertility Center Las Vegas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blastocyst transfer; Embryo cryopreservation; endometrial receptivity; endometrium; IVF; ovarian stimulation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY STIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENDOMETRIAL RECEPTIVITY; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FRESH THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER; FROZEN THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; INNER CELL MASS; NIDATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN STIMULATION; PROBABILITY; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEVADA; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLASTOCYST;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 79960647582     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.05.050     Document Type: Article

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