Optimal euploid embryo transfer strategy, fresh versus frozen, after preimplantation genetic screening with next generation sequencing: a randomized controlled trial

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 723-730.e3

  Coates, Alison ^a,d   Kung, Allen ^b,d   Mounts, Emily ^a   Hesla, John ^a   Bankowski, Brandon ^a   Barbieri, Elizabeth ^a   Ata, Baris ^c   Cohen, Jacques ^b   Munné, Santiago ^b  

^a Oregon Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b Reprogenetics LLC   (United States)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aneuploidy; embryos; PGS; transfer

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DESOGESTREL PLUS ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FRESH EUPLOID EMBRYO TRANSFER; FROZEN EUPLOID EMBRYO TRANSFER; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; LIVE BIRTH; LUTEINIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; NIDATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; BIOPSY; FERTILITY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY; OREGON; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLOIDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

ADULT; BIOPSY; BLASTOCYST; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE TECHNIQUES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC TESTING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LIVE BIRTH; OREGON; PLOIDIES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITRIFICATION;

EID: 85010904531     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2016.12.022     Document Type: Article

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