BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to compare clinical pregnancy and delivery rates with fresh and frozen embryo transfer in patients admitted to Shiraz- Human Assisted Reproductive Center with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS). METHODS OHSS patients randomly divided in two groups, group A (n=50) with fresh embryo transfer and group B (n=50) with frozen embryo transfer. We used vi...

BACKGROUND Whether extended culture allowing selection of embryos with high development potential has any advantage over cleavage-stage embryo transfer remains a matter of debate. Among the currently unsolved questions, the cumulative delivery rate resulting from fresh and frozen embryo transfers needs to be taken into account in both strategies. The aim of our study was, therefore, to compare ...

To find some prognostic factors for the outcome of frozen-thawed cycles, we have retrospectively analysed all frozen pre-embryos that were thawed during 1993 and 1994 at two in-vitro fertilization (IVF) units in Sweden. Supernumerary pre-embryos were frozen from 551 oocyte retrievals and these resulted in 660 frozen-thawed cycles which lead to 623 thawed embryo transfers. The outcome of these t...

BACKGROUND Frozen embryo transfers are characterized by impaired pregnancy outcome and increased incidence of pregnancy loss as compared with fresh IVF/ICSI embryo transfers. In this study, we performed a retrospective analysis of clinical and embryological factors that potentially influence the outcome of frozen embryo transfer. METHODS We reviewed the outcome of 1242 frozen embryo transfers...

EFFICACY OF INTRAUTERINE INSTILLATION AUTOLOGOUS PLATELET-RICH PLASMA ON ENDOMETRIAL GROWTH DURING THE FROZEN-THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER CYCLES

BACKGROUND Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients are at increased risk of pregnancy complications, which may impair pregnancy outcome. Transfer of fresh embryos after superovulation may lead to abnormal implantation and placentation and further increase risk for pregnancy loss and complications. Some preliminary data suggest that elective embryo cryopreservation followed by frozen-thawed em...

BACKGROUND Multiple pregnancies are one of the major safety concerns of in vitro fertilization (IVF) due to the increased risk of maternal and neonatal complications. Single embryo transfer is the most effective way to reduce the risk of multiple pregnancies. Selection of the embryo and optimization of the implantation environment are crucial to retain the success rate when the number of transf...

introduction: mouse embryos can successfully be frozen with sucrose and propandiol. however, different developmental stages of mammalian embryos have shown to have various capacities to undergo freeze-thawing procedure. in the present study, the ability of 1,2,4 and 8-ell mouse embryo to tolerate the freeze-thawing procedure was investigated and the effect of this procedure on the further in vi...

BACKGROUND Embryo culture media used for IVF treatment might affect fetal growth and thus birthweight of the newborns. METHODS A retrospective study was conducted in South China using data from 2370 singleton neonates born after IVF/ICSI between 2009 and 2012. Two culture media, i.e., either Vitrolife or SAGE were used as embryo culture media during the study period. Neonates' birthweights we...

In order to reduce the chance of multiple pregnancy during in-vitro fertilisation (IVF)– embryo transfer treatment, there is an increasing trend towards transferring a lower number of embryos. Surplus good-quality embryos are then transferred in frozen-thawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles. The first pregnancy after FET was reported in 1983.1 It has been estimated that in IVF programmes in which ...