Ongoing and cumulative pregnancy rate after cleavage-stage versus blastocyst-stage embryo transfer using vitrification for cryopreservation: Impact of age on the results

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 177-184

  Fernandez Shaw S ^a   Cercas, R ^a   Brana C ^a   Villas, C ^a   Pons, I ^a  

^a URH García del Real de Madrid   (Spain)

Author keywords

Age; Blastocyst; Cumulative pregnancy rate; Ongoing pregnancy rate; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPHASE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; VITRIFICATION; ZYGOTE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84925520072     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-014-0387-9     Document Type: Article

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