Freeze-all at the blastocyst or bipronuclear stage: A randomized clinical trial

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1138-1144

  Shapiro, Bruce S ^a,b   Daneshmand, Said T ^a,b   Garner, Forest C ^a,b   Aguirre, Martha ^a   Hudson, Cynthia ^a  

^a Fertility Center Las Vegas   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

blastocyst transfer; embryo cryopreservation; embryo vitrification; frozen embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPRONUCLEAR STAGE; BLASTOCYST; BODY MASS; CELL CULTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METAPHASE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NIDATION; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VITRIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEVADA; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946482311     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2015.07.1141     Document Type: Article

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