Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 209-222, February 2010

Slow freezing, vitrification and ultra-rapid freezing of human embryos: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  • Faten F. AbdelHafez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • Nina Desai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Ahmed M. Abou-Setta

      Affiliations

    • Private Clinic, Pyramids, Giza, Egypt
    • Present address: Alberta Research Centre for Health Evidence, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
    • ,
  • Tommaso Falcone

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA
    • ,
  • James Goldfarb

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, USA

Received 5 March 2009; received in revised form 16 April 2009; accepted 21 September 2009. published online 28 December 2009.

Declaration: The authors report no financial or commercial conflicts of interest.

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 Dr Nina Desai received her doctorate in cell biology from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (1984). She served as IVF Laboratory Director at Ohio State and later at University Hospital, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr Desai was invited to join the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in 2000 as Director of IVF and Clinical Research. She is also an Assistant Professor at the Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve. Her research interests include non-invasive markers of embryonic potential, growth factor modulation of embryonic differentiation, apoptosis, stem cell derivation and vitrification of embryo, oocytes and isolated follicles.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00226-0

doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.11.013

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 2 , Pages 209-222, February 2010

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