Selecting the 'best' embryos: Prospects for improvement

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 644-653

  Braude, Peter ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

embryo quality; evidence base; IVF; morphokinetics; multiple pregnancy; PGS; responsibility

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; SILDENAFIL; STEROID;

ACUPUNCTURE; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BIOETHICS; BLASTOCYST; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHILDLESSNESS; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECISION MAKING; EMBRYO; EMBRYO RESEARCH; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SCIENCE; SURVIVAL; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; TWINS; ZYGOTE;

EMBRYO QUALITY; EVIDENCE BASE; IVF; MORPHOKINETICS; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PGS; RESPONSIBILITY;

AGE FACTORS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

EID: 84889090159     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.08.009     Document Type: Review

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