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Vitrification demonstrates significant improvement versus slow freezing of human blastocysts
- Source :
- Reproductive BioMedicine Online. 11:53-57
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2005.
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Abstract
- Blastocyst culture has reduced the number of embryos transferred per cycle, whilst simultaneously creating new quandaries regarding supernumerary blastocyst cryopreservation. This retrospective study was undertaken to compare a slow freezing protocol to a vitrification protocol for cryopreservation of day 5 and day 6 human blastocysts. To demonstrate this, the survival, implantation rate and pregnancy rates were compared after thawing, assessment and embryo transfer of 86 consecutive day 5 and day 6 thawed blastocyst transfer cycles from January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2003. Seventy-one day 5 slow-frozen (SF) blastocysts were thawed and 59 embryos survived the thawing (83.1%). An average of 2.5 SF blastocysts was replaced per embryo transfer, resulting in a pregnancy rate of 16.7% (4/24). Concurrently, 41 vitrified (VIT) blastocysts were thawed and all 41 survived the thawing process (100%). An average of 2.0 VIT blastocysts was replaced per embryo transfer, resulting in a pregnancy rate of 50% (10/20). Survival, pregnancy and implantation rates of day 5 VIT blastocysts have significantly increased (P < 0.01, P < 0.02 and P < 0.01 respectively) over day 5 SF blastocysts. A similar trend was observed with day 6 blastocysts.
- Subjects :
- Pregnancy Rate
Fertilization in Vitro
Biology
Cryopreservation
Andrology
Pregnancy
Freezing
medicine
Humans
Vitrification
Blastocyst
reproductive and urinary physiology
Retrospective Studies
urogenital system
Blastocyst Transfer
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Embryo
Embryo Transfer
medicine.disease
Embryo transfer
Pregnancy rate
medicine.anatomical_structure
Reproductive Medicine
embryonic structures
Female
Developmental Biology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14726483
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Reproductive BioMedicine Online
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....bfcfb9932edfa5e11265921599ff6eaa