Extended embryo culture to increase implantation rate

G Quea, K Romero, JA Garcia-Velasco - Reproductive biomedicine online, 2007 - Elsevier
Multiple pregnancies are a serious adverse event of IVF treatment. Several strategies have
been developed to improve embryo selection and embryo developmental potential to
increase pregnancy rates without increasing the risk of multiple pregnancies. The only way
to effectively solve this problem is to reduce the number of embryos transferred to one. The
introduction of extended embryo culture has provided IVF programmes with a valuable tool
to select more accurately those embryos with a higher implantation potential. The concept of …