Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 636-641 , November 2010

Outcomes of vitrified–warmed day-4 embryos after day-3 cleavage-stage biopsy

  • Semra Kahraman

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
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  • Zafer Nihat Candan

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    • Present address: Istanbul Memorial Hospital, ART and Reproductive Genetics Center, Piyale Pasa Bulvari, Okmeydani, 34385 Istanbul, Turkey.

Received 30 December 2009 ,Revised 9 July 2010 ,Accepted 13 July 2010.

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 Semra Kahraman graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School and obtained her speciality degree in obstetrics and gynaecology from Ankara University Medical School. She is Professor and Senior Lecturer at Yeditepe University School of Medicine. She is the first in Turkey to have carried out ICSI, embryo freezing and testing for aneuploidy and single-gene disorders. She is the director of Reproductive Endocrinology and Genetics Unit at Istanbul Memorial Hospital ART, in which more than 3000 assisted cycles are performed annually, and a board member of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society.

PII: S1472-6483(10)00509-2

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.07.011

Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 21, Issue 5 , Pages 636-641 , November 2010

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