Freeze-all, oocyte vitrification, or fresh embryo transfer? Lessons from an egg-sharing donation program

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 615-622

  Braga, Daniela Paes Almeida Ferreira ^a,b,c   Setti, Amanda Souza ^a,c   Figueira, Rita Cássia Sávio ^a   Azevedo, Matheus de Castro ^a   Iaconelli, Assumpto ^a   Lo Turco, Edson Guimarães ^b   Borges, Edson ^a,b,c  

^a Fertility   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c Instituto Sapientiae   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryobanking; embryo cryopreservation; freeze all; oocyte vitrification

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; NIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RECIPIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; VITRIFICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; FERTILITY; INFERTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTOR; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTORS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TISSUE PRESERVATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84978516828     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.05.004     Document Type: Article

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