Can repeated IVF-ICSI-cycles be avoided by using blastocysts developing from poor-quality cleavage stage embryos?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 241-247

  Kaartinen, Noora ^a   Das, Pia ^a   Kananen, Kirsi ^b   Huhtala, Heini ^c   Tinkanen, Helena ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b Infertility Clinic Ovumia   (Finland)

^c TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

blastocyst; cleavage stage; cryopreservation; cumulative delivery rate; embryo quality; poor quality

Indexed keywords

GANIRELIX; NAFARELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VITRIFICATION; WARMING; BIRTH RATE; ECTOGENESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; FINLAND; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FINLAND; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OUTPATIENT CLINICS, HOSPITAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84924041012     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.11.016     Document Type: Article

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