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Effect of Cryopreservation Day on Pregnancy Outcomes in Frozen-thawed Blastocyst Transfer  

Kim, Hyun-Jung (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
Kim, Chung-Hyon (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
Lee, Joong-Yeup (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
Kwon, Jae-Hee (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
Hwang, Do-Yeong (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
Kim, Ki-Chul (Hamchoon Women's Clinic)
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Clinical and Experimental Reproductive Medicine / v.37, no.1, 2010 , pp. 57-64 More about this Journal
Abstract
Objectives: Likewise fresh cycle, it is also important to select right blastocysts for transfer in purpose of improving the pregnancy and implantation rates in frozen-thawed embryo transfer (ET) cycles. To investigate the relationship between the developmental velocity at the time of cryopreservation and pregnancy rates, we compared pregnancy rates between the day 5 cryopreservation group and the day 6 cryopreservation group. Methods: Transfers of frozen-thawed blastocysts which had been cryopreserved by vitrification on day 5 or day 6 were performed between January 2006 and June 2007. Ethylene glycol, DMSO, and pull and cut straws were used for vitrification and artificial shrinkage was done in expanded blastocysts. Thawing was performed on the day before transfer and thawed blastocysts were cultured in for 15~18 hrs in Quinn's blastocyct media. Blastocyst survival was assessed before transfer and post-thaw survival was defined as >50% of cells remaining intact and blastocoele re-expansion by the time of transfer. Results: Transfers of thawed blastocyst had been cryopreserved on day 5 were 52 cycles and 41 transfer cycles were cryopreserved on day 6. Patient characteristics, the number of transferred embryos and the survival rate of thawed blastocysts were not different in each cryopreservation day. But the biochemical pregnancy, clinical pregnancy, ongoing pregnancy, and implantation rate were significantly high in transfer of frozen-thawed blastocyst which were cryopreserved on day 5. Conclusions: The clinical pregnancy and implantation rate of day-5 blastocyst showed significantly higher than those of day-6 blastocyst in frozen-ET cycles. This result indicated that developmental rate of blastocyst at cryopreservation time in frozen-thawed cycle is discriminative marker of pregnancy outcome as like in fresh cycle.
Keywords
Frozen-thawed blastocyst; Cryopreservation day; Vitrification; Blastocyst transfer;
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