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A quantitative analysis of the impact of cryopreservation on the implantation potential of human early cleavage stage embryos.

Human Reproduction 2000 January
The impact of cryopreservation on the implantation potential of early cleavage stage (day 2) embryos was assessed by analysing the outcome from > 5000 thawed embryos in relation to the outcome from a similar number of fresh embryos. Analysis of procedures in which all transferred embryos fulfilled equivalent defined criteria revealed no significant difference in the implantation rates (fetal hearts/100 embryos transferred) of fresh 4-cell embryos (16.6%) and fully intact thawed 4-cell embryos (16.9%). Although 2-cell embryos implanted at significantly lower rates, there was again no significant difference between fresh (6.5%) and fully intact thawed (7.2%) embryos. Similar analysis of all embryos (irrespective of cell number on day 2) demonstrated that the implantation potential of partially intact thawed embryos was related to the extent of blastomere loss with the implantation rate of embryos with 50% cell survival (5.4%) being approximately half the rate of fully intact embryos (11.3%). Combining the values obtained from 'pure' data for the implantation rates of embryos with defined levels of survival with their relative prevalence in the total population of thawed embryos gave a predicted number of implantations (441) which was similar to the observed outcome (463). This number was approximately 30% less than the number expected had the same embryos been transferred fresh (635). The results suggest that intact thawed embryos have the same implantation potential as equivalent fresh embryos and that the impact of cryopreservation is limited to blastomere loss which is directly related to loss of implantation potential. The observed frequency of blastomere loss results in a reduction of approximately 30% in the implantation potential of a population of embryos following cryopreservation.

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