Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 6 , Pages 1677-1684 , June 2008

Impact of early cleaved zygote morphology on embryo development and in vitro fertilization–embryo transfer outcome: a prospective study

  • Laëtitia Hesters, Pharm.D.

      Affiliations

    • APHP, Departments of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Laëtitia Hesters, Pharm.D., Department of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, INSERM U782, Université Paris 11, 157, rue de la Porte de Trivaux, 92141, Clamart, France.
    • ,
  • Nadia Prisant, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • APHP, Departments of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Renato Fanchin, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • APHP, Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Daniel H. Méndez Lozano, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • APHP, Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Estelle Feyereisen, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • APHP, Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • René Frydman, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • APHP, Departments of Gynecology and Obstetrics and Reproductive Medicine, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Gérard Tachdjian, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • APHP, Departments of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France
    • ,
  • Nelly Frydman, Pharm.D.

      Affiliations

    • APHP, Departments of Biology and Genetics of Reproduction, Antoine Béclère Hospital, Clamart, France
    • INSERM, U782, Clamart, France
    • Université Paris-Sud, UMR -S0782, Clamart, France

Received 26 September 2006 ,Revised 8 March 2007 ,Accepted 25 April 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)01013-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.04.047

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 6 , Pages 1677-1684 , June 2008

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