Women's age and embryo developmental speed accurately predict clinical pregnancy after single vitrified-warmed blastocyst transfer

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 411-416

  Kato, Keiichi ^a,b   Ueno, Satoshi ^a   Yabuuchi, Akiko ^a   Uchiyama, Kazuo ^a   Okuno, Takashi ^a   Kobayashi, Tamotsu ^a   Segawa, Tomoya ^c   Teramoto, Shokichi ^c  

^a Kato Ladies Clinic   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c Shinbashi Yume Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

blastocyst culture; in vitro fertilization; minimal ovarian stimulation; outcome prediction; single embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; DELIVERY; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOGENESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; JAPAN; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; VITRIFICATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BLASTOCYST; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOGENESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; JAPAN; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84908151699     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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