Cleavage-stage or blastocyst transfer: what are the benefits and harms?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 244-250

  Glujovsky, Demián ^a   Farquhar, Cynthia ^b  

^a Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^b THE UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

blastocyst; cleavage; Embryo transfer

Indexed keywords

BLASTOCYST; BLASTOCYST TRANSFER; CLEAVAGE STAGE TRANSFER; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FREEZING; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; OOCYTE CLEAVAGE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY; NIDATION; ODDS RATIO; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLASTOCYST; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLEAVAGE STAGE, OVUM; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84991784095     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.06.029     Document Type: Review

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