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Assisted Reproduction
Multinucleated embryos shouldn't be transferred, clinicians recommend
March 24th, 2005
Based on experiences in their practice, a team of reproductive medicine specialists recommends that transfer of multinucleated embryos should be avoided. J. Meriano and colleagues, LifeQuest Center for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, conducted a "prospective sequential, cohort study [of] the two most common multinucleation phenotypes observed in the authors' clinic - binucleated (BN) and micronucleated (MN) blastomeres - and included all intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) patients <40 years of age with at least one multinucleated embryo in the cohort as observed on day 2 of development." They reported, "Eighty ICSI cycles of 560 consecutive...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-24)
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