Freeze-all cycle for all normal responders?

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 179-185

  Roque, Matheus ^a,b   Valle, Marcello ^a   Guimarães, Fernando ^a   Sampaio, Marcos ^c   Geber, Selmo ^b,c  

^a ORIGEN Center for Reproductive Medicine   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^c Origen Center for Reproductive Medicine   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Delayed frozen thawed embryo transfer; Elective frozen thawed embryo transfer; Embryo cryopreservation; Freeze all policy; IVF ICSI

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN PLUS RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE; TRIPTORELIN; GONADORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NIDATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DRUG EFFECTS; FREEZING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 84994201551     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-016-0834-x     Document Type: Article

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