Blastocyst Transfer in IVF: Fewer Risks, New Hope

Mark Perloe (Doctor)
Michael J. Tucker (Doctor)
E.Scott Sills (Doctor)
Carolyn Kaplan (Doctor)

Drs Perloe, Tucker and Sills are OBGYN.net Editorial Advisors

Key Points

• The incidence of multiple births following assisted reproductive techniques is of concern to infertility practitioners and patients. Blastocyst transfer has the potential to almost eliminate this risk.
  
  
• Embryos developing to the blastocyst stage (day 5/6) have a much greater chance of implanting than day 3 transfers.
  
  
• The ability to develop embryos to the blastocyst stage is an important advance, but current blastocyst quality grading standards are as yet crude measures of implantation success.
  
  
• Further advances may make the transfer of a single blastocyst the norm in the future.

[ Home ] [ Current Issue ] [ ]