Should we be promoting embryo transfer at blastocyst stage?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 142-146

  Maheshwari, Abha ^a   Hamilton, Mark ^a   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^b  

^a NHS GRAMPIAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

blasocyst; embryo transfer; IVF; preterm delivery

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA MODIFICATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; LARGE FOR GESTATIONAL AGE; META ANALYSIS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEX RATIO; STANDARD; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; BIRTH RATE; CHROMOSOME; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; NEWBORN; NIDATION; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROCEDURES; RISK; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CHROMOSOMES; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RISK; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 84949032546     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2015.09.016     Document Type: Note

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