IVF outcome is optimized when embryos are replaced between 5 and 15 mm from the fundal endometrial surface: A prospective analysis on 1184 IVF cycles

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Rovei, Valentina ^a   Dalmasso, Paola ^b   Gennarelli, Gianluca ^a   Lantieri, Teresa ^a   Basso, Gemma ^a   Benedetto, Chiara ^a   Revelli, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abortion rate; Embryo transfer; Implantation rate; Ongoing pregnancy rate; Pregnancy rate; US guided embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO FUNDUS DISTANCE; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UTERINE FUNDUS; UTERUS CAVITY;

ADULT; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; UTERUS;

EID: 84890287883     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-11-114     Document Type: Article

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