Clinical rationale for cryopreservation of entire embryo cohorts in lieu of fresh transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 3-9

  Shapiro, Bruce S ^a,b   Daneshmand, Said T ^a,b   Garner, Forest C ^a,b   Aguirre, Martha ^a   Hudson, Cynthia ^a  

^a Fertility Center Las Vegas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

embryo cryopreservation; frozen embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization; ovarian stimulation; perinatal risk

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN;

ANTEPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; BIRTH DEFECT; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FRESH EMBRYO TRANSFER; FROZEN THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MACROSOMIA; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NIDATION; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; PARTHENOGENESIS; PLACENTA PREVIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SOLUTIO PLACENTAE; UTERUS;

EMBRYO CRYOPRESERVATION; FROZEN EMBRYO TRANSFER; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; OVARIAN STIMULATION; PERINATAL RISK;

CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILITY AGENTS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903390867     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2014.04.018     Document Type: Review

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