S Lee
JBRA Assist. Reprod. 2002; 6 (2):67-70
Received April 30, 2002
Accepted May 12, 2002
Abstract
The rationale for this study was determinate whether the attainment of 8 cells alone at transfer is advantageous. ln this study there were 105 consecutive IVF/ICSl patients who recruited prospectively, at transfer embryos were assessed purely on lhe basis of whether they had reached 8-cell or not. (Group A= patients with at least one 8-cell transferred and group B=patients with no embryos having reached this stage). The average ages for IVF and ICSI were group A: 3 5 5 and group B:35.6years. On the results group A outcomes better than those in Group B, were significantly better, when at least one 8-cell was transferred (p<0.05) . These results demonstrate that the 8-cell stage provides an adequate means of discriminating the viable embryos
