Human Embryo Morphology and Developmental Capacity

  • Mina Alikani
  • Sasha Sadowy
  • Jacques Cohen
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Abstract

Human embryos obtained during therapeutic in vitro fertilization (IVF) are morphologically diverse and display features not common among other mammalian embryos in vitro. Logic dictates and experience concurs that embryo quality assessment must entail more than phenotype alone, but so far and at least in the human, no other evaluation scheme has proven to be more practical or clinically useful. This chapter presents current opinions on the relationship between gross morphology and developmental capacity. An overview of data from a clinical embryology database (EggCyte™) with large numbers of records has also been incorporated.

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Human Embryo Implantation Rate Preimplantation Development Cleavage Stage Embryo Multinucleated Blastomere 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Mina Alikani
    • 1
  • Sasha Sadowy
    • 1
  • Jacques Cohen
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute for Reproductive Medicine and ScienceSaint Barnabas Medical CenterWest OrangeUSA

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