Transfers of fresh blastocysts and blastocysts cultured from thawed cleavage embryos are associated with fewer miscarriages

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 777-788

  Wang, Yueping Alex ^a   Costello, Michael ^a   Chapman, Michael ^a   Black, Deborah ^b   Sullivan, Elizabeth Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

blastocyst; cleavage embryo; miscarriage; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST FROM THAWED CLEAVAGE EMBRYO; CELL DIVISION; CELL TRANSFER; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CELL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FRESH BLASTOCYST; FRESH CLEAVAGE EMBRYO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN CELL CULTURE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THAWED BLASTOCYST; THAWED CLEAVAGE EMBRYO;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 82855175111     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.07.023     Document Type: Article

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