Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 5 , Pages 656-659 , May 2010

Healthy live birth from vitrified blastocysts produced from natural cycle IVF/IVM

  • Seong-Ho Yang

      Affiliations

    • Maria Fertility Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Si-Long Qin

      Affiliations

    • Center of Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, The General Hospital of Beijing Army, Beijing, PR China
    • ,
  • Ye Xu

      Affiliations

    • Center of Reproductive Medicine and Genetics, The General Hospital of Beijing Army, Beijing, PR China
    • ,
  • San-Hyun Yoon

      Affiliations

    • Maria Fertility Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Ri-Cheng Chian

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada H3A 1A1
    • ,
  • Jin-Ho Lim

      Affiliations

    • Maria Fertility Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea

Received 18 August 2009 ,Revised 14 September 2009 ,Accepted 16 December 2009.

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 Seong-Ho Yang is a senior clinical embryolosist at Maria Fertility Hospital, Seoul, Korea. He obtained his MSc degree from Korea University, Seoul in 2000. He has more than 8years of experience in the field of clinical embryology. In 1999 he started his work as a clinical embryologist at Maria Fertility Hospital in Seoul and then from 2005 he transferred to Maria Fertility Hospital in Beijing, in the IVF Laboratory. Mr Yang’s research interests include natural cycles combined with in-vitro maturation of immature oocytes, blastocyst culture and vitrification of embryos.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00049-0

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.01.013

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