Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1669-1673 , October 2010

Hyaluronan-enriched transfer medium in cleavage-stage frozen-thawed embryo transfers increases implantation rate without improvement of delivery rate

  • Fredwell Hambiliki, M.Sc.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • ,
  • Elisabeth Ljunger, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • ,
  • Per-Olof Karlström, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Clinical Science, Intervention, and Technology, Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    • Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • ,
  • Anneli Stavreus-Evers, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Anneli Stavreus-Evers, Ph.D., Department of Women's and Children's Health, Uppsala University, 751 85, Uppsala, Sweden (FAX: 4618559775).

Received 24 June 2009 ,Revised 23 September 2009 ,Accepted 9 October 2009.

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 F.H. has nothing to disclose. E.L. has nothing to disclose. P.-O.K. has nothing to disclose. A.S.-E. has nothing to disclose.

 This work was supported by grants from the Swedish Research Council (2005-7293).

PII: S0015-0282(09)03881-3

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.10.019

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 94, Issue 5 , Pages 1669-1673 , October 2010

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