Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 380-386 , March 2010

Factors affecting pregnancy in IVF: age and duration of embryo transfer

  • M.T. Cetin

      Affiliations

    • Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Y. Kumtepe

      Affiliations

    • Prof Dr M Turan Cetin IVF Center, Adana, Turkey
    • ,
  • H. Kiran

      Affiliations

    • Prof Dr M Turan Cetin IVF Center, Adana, Turkey
    • ,
  • G. Seydaoglu

      Affiliations

    • Cukurova University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Balcalı, Adana, Turkey

Received 9 March 2009 ,Revised 18 June 2009 ,Accepted 23 November 2009.

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 After having worked extensively in the areas of infertility, endoscopic surgery (laparoscopy, hysteroscopy) and reproductive endocrinology in Turkey, Prof Dr M Turan Çetin has worked in Montpellier University, and St Joseph Hospital Montplaisir Clinique in Lyon in the fields of infertility, reproductive endocrinology, endoscopic surgery and IVF-embryo transfer. He is one of the first doctors to have performed endoscopic surgery in Turkey and his work resulted in the first IVF baby to be born in Adana, Turkey. He is a nationally renowned infertility specialist.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00285-5

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.12.008

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 380-386 , March 2010

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