Single blastocyst embryo transfer maintains comparable pregnancy rates to double cleavage-stage embryo transfer but results in healthier pregnancy outcomes

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 406-410

  Zander Fox, Deirdre L ^a   Tremellen, Kelton ^a,b   Lane, Michelle ^a,c  

^a Repromed   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology; blastocyst culture; In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF); multiple birth; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELIVERY; DOUBLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREGNANCY, TRIPLET; PREGNANCY, TWIN; PREMATURE BIRTH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 80054045830     PISSN: 00048666     EISSN: 1479828X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2011.01324.x     Document Type: Article

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