No benefit of culturing embryos in a closed system compared with a conventional incubator in terms of number of good quality embryos: Results from an RCT

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 268-275

  Park, H ^a   Bergh, C ^a   Selleskog, U ^a   Thurin Kjellberg, A ^a   Lundin, K ^a  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Embryo culture; Safety; Time lapse

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNIOSCOPE; ARTICLE; CLOSED INCUBATOR SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROINJECTION; NIDATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TIME LAPSE IMAGING; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DEVICES; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECTOGENESIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FAMILY SIZE; INCUBATOR; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY; SWEDEN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ECTOGENESIS; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCUBATORS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY MAINTENANCE; PREGNANCY RATE; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SWEDEN; TIME-LAPSE IMAGING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930462613     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deu316     Document Type: Article

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