Higher clinical pregnancy rates from frozen-thawed blastocyst transfers compared to fresh blastocyst transfers: A retrospective matched-cohort study

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1483-1490

  Özgür, Kemal ^a   Berkkanoğlu, Murat ^a   Bulut, Hasan ^a   Isikli, Ayhan ^a   Coetzee, Kevin ^a  

^a Özel Antalya Tüp Bebek Merkezi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Blastocyst; Endometrium; Fresh; Frozen thawed; Implantation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CELL EXPANSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FETUS HEART; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VITRIFICATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84983266533     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0576-1     Document Type: Article

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