Higher β-HCG concentrations and higher birthweights ensue from single vitrified embryo transfers

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 149-160

  Keane, Kevin N ^a,b   Mustafa, Kamarul Bahyah ^a,c   Hinchliffe, Peter ^a   Conceicao, Jason ^a   Yovich, John L ^a,b  

^a PIVET Medical Centre   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

birthweight; FET; IVF ET; single embryo transfer; vitrification; HCG

Indexed keywords

BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EMBRYO; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; INFANT; LIVE BIRTH; LUTEAL PHASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY TEST; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; VITRIFICATION; ADULT; BLOOD; EMBRYO CULTURE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT;

ADULT; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84969174598     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2016.04.014     Document Type: Article

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