Cumulative live birth rates after fresh and vitrified cleavage-stage versus blastocyst-stage embryo transfer in the first treatment cycle

Human Reproduction

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2442-2449

  De Vos, Anick ^a   Van Landuyt, Lisbet ^a   Santos Ribeiro, Samuel ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Van De Velde, Hilde ^a   Tournaye, Herman ^a   Verheyen, Greta ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

blastocyst stage; cleavage stage; cumulative live birth rate; single embryo transfer; vitrification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; BLASTOCYST; CHILD; EMBRYO; FUNDING; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; STUDY DESIGN; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; VITRIFICATION; BIRTH RATE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 84996477166     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dew219     Document Type: Article

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