Does IVF cleavage stage embryo quality affect pregnancy complications and neonatal outcomes in singleton gestations after double embryo transfers?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1635-1641

  Zhu, Jinliang ^a,b,c   Lian, Ying ^a,b,c   Li, Ming ^a,b,c   Chen, Lixue ^a,b,c   Liu, Ping ^a,b,c   Qiao, Jie ^a,b,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY THIRD HOSPITAL   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c Beijing Key Laboratory of Reproductive Endocrinology and Assisted Reproduction   (China)

Author keywords

Embryo quality; IVF ICSI; Miscarriage; Pregnancy complications; Singleton gestations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO (ANATOMY); EMBRYO QUALITY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PARENTAL AGE; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; SPERM QUALITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STILLBIRTH; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; BLASTOCYST; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; BLASTOCYST; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84914682049     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0351-8     Document Type: Article

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