Embryo incubation and selection in a time-lapse monitoring system improves pregnancy outcome compared with a standard incubator: A retrospective cohort study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Meseguer, Marcos ^a   Rubio, Irene ^a   Cruz, Maria ^b   Basile, Natalia ^c   Marcos, Julian ^d   Requena, Antonio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b IVI Alicante   (Spain)

^c IVI Madrid   (Spain)

^d IVI Murcia   (Spain)

Author keywords

clinical pregnancy; culture system; Embryo development; embryo selection; morphokinetic parameters; time lapse monitoring

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO SELECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME LAPSE IMAGING;

EID: 84870362736     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2012.08.016     Document Type: Article

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