Reduction of multiple pregnancies in the advanced maternal age population after implementation of an elective single embryo transfer policy coupled with enhanced embryo selection: Pre- and post-intervention study

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 2097-2106

  Ubaldi, Filippo Maria ^a   Capalbo, Antonio ^a,b   Colamaria, Silvia ^a   Ferrero, Susanna ^a   Maggiulli, Roberta ^a   Vajta, Gábor ^c   Sapienza, Fabio ^a   Cimadomo, Danilo ^a,b   Giuliani, Maddalena ^a   Gravotta, Enrica ^a   Vaiarelli, Alberto ^a   Rienzi, Laura ^a  

^a GENERA Centre for Reproductive Medicine   (Italy)

^b Gruppo Salus   (Italy)

^c BGI Shenzhen ^*  (China)

Author keywords

advanced maternal age; comprehensive chromosome screening; elective single embryo transfer; preimplantation genetic screening; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; GENETIC SCREENING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PERINATAL DEATH; POPULATION; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PREMATURITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; VITRIFICATION; WARMING; FOLLOW UP; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER;

EID: 84940735730     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev159     Document Type: Article

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