Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1568-1570, April 2009

Clinical features and reproductive outcomes for embryos undergoing dual freeze-thaw sequences followed by blastocyst transfer: critique of 14 consecutive cases in IVF

  • Eric Scott Sills, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Dublin, Ireland
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: E. Scott Sills, M.D., Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Rosemount Hall, Dundrum Road, Dundrum, Dublin 14, Ireland (FAX: +353-1-296-8512).
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  • Gráinne U. Murray, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Dublin, Ireland
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  • Marc G. Genton, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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  • David J. Walsh, M.D., M.R.C.O.G.

      Affiliations

    • Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Dublin, Ireland
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  • Graham D. Coull, B.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Dublin, Ireland
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  • Anthony P.H. Walsh, M.D., M.R.C.O.G., M.R.C.P.I.

      Affiliations

    • Sims International Fertility Clinic/The Sims Institute, Dublin, Ireland

Received 5 September 2008; received in revised form 25 September 2008; accepted 25 September 2008. published online 29 October 2008.

These data suggest that the physiologic stress associated with two consecutive freeze-thaw processes is likely minor. Dual freeze-thaw of embryos does not appear to adversely impact delivery rate in IVF; a livebirth delivery rate of 35.7% per transfer was observed in our population.

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 E.S.S. has nothing to disclose. G.U.M. has nothing to disclose. M.G.G. has nothing to disclose. D.J.W. has nothing to disclose. G.D.C. has nothing to disclose. A.P.H.W. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(08)04100-9

doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.09.075

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 4, Supplement , Pages 1568-1570, April 2009

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