Endometrial pattern, but not endometrial thickness, affects implantation rates in euploid embryo transfers

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 620-628.e5

  Gingold, Julian A ^a,b,c   Lee, Joseph A ^a   Rodriguez Purata, Jorge ^a   Whitehouse, Michael C ^a   Sandler, Benjamin ^a,b   Grunfeld, Lawrence ^a,b   Mukherjee, Tanmoy ^a,b   Copperman, Alan B ^a,b  

^a Reproductive Medicine Associates of New York   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

endometrial pattern; Endometrial thickness; implantation rate; pregnancy rate; preimplantation genetic screening

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GANIRELIX; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL PATTERN; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BLASTOCYST; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; ENDOMETRIUM; GENETIC SCREENING; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MATERNAL AGE; PLOIDIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84940726263     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.05.036     Document Type: Article

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