Prospective comparison of two commercially available culture media under the provisions of the German embryo protection law

Autor: Paul Ebert, Beata Szypajlo, Karin Tomalak, Karl Völklein
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Journal of the Turkish-German Gynecological Association, Vol 10, Iss 01, Pp 10-13 (2009)
ISSN: 1309-0380
1309-0399
Popis: Objective: Under the provisions of the German embryo protection law allowing a maximum of only three embryos in culture, blastocyst transfers are underrepresented and for obvious reasons usage of sequential media is not required. Matiral and Methods: This prospective study was set up to evaluate whether a global medium (157 patients) could provide comparable data or even outmatch results achieved with a medium specifically designed for early cleavage stages (116 patients). Results: Though rates of fertilization, cleavage and pregnancy did not differ between both media (P>0.05), interestingly, rate of pregnancy losses was significantly lower in patients with global medium (P
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