Avtor/Urednik     Kovačič, Borut; Vlaisavljević, Veljko; Reljič, Milan; Čižek-Sajko, Mojca
Naslov     Developmental capacity of different morphological types of day 5 human morulae and blastocysts
Tip     članek
Vir     Reprod Biomed
Vol. in št.     Letnik 8, št. 6
Leto izdaje     2004
Obseg     str. 687-94
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     After prolonged culture of human embryos, the expanded blastocysts with oval inner cell mass (ICM) and cohesive trophetoderm (TE) are preferably selected for transfer. In cycles with poor embryonic development, the selection has to be done from among suboptimal blastocysts for which no grading system exists. In this study, 1396 transferred blastocysts and morulae were classified into eight morphologic categories. The B1 category constituted the optimal blastocysts. The other categories were characterized by different deviations from optimal blastocysts: cytoplasmic fragments and necrosis in TE (B2), unexpanded blastocoele (B3), non-compact or small ICM (B4), fragments in TE and ICM (B5), up to 20% excluded blastomeres (B6), necrotic TE and ICM (B7), and more than 20% exclluded cells from blastocysts (B8). The live birth rate was calculated from blastocysts with known outcome after transfer (88.9% transferred blastocysts). The birth rate declined recognized as the most important parameter for implantation. There was a strong relation between such ordered morphology categories and implantation capacity (P>0.0001). Such a grading system is helpful in selecting the best of all available day-5 embryos for transfer.
Deskriptorji     BLASTOCYST
MORULA
EMBRYO TRANSFER
FERTILIZATION IN VITRO
SPERMATOZOA
OOCYTES
OVULATION INDUCTION
OVUM IMPLANTATION