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Day 5 blastocyst pictures from IVF
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Day 5 (or day 6) transfer after in vitro fertilization - blastocyst stage culture and transfer
can maintain high pregnancy rates with very low risk for triplets

Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
Gurnee & Crystal Lake, Illinois

Our Overall IVF Success Rates                Our Blastocyst Transfer Success Rates

Blastocyst IVF embryos for freezing
4 blastocysts that were "left over" after the embryo transfer
These 5 day old embryos are candidates for cryopreservation (freezing) for future use

Blastocyst embryo inner cell mass

Hatching mouse blastocyst stained with fluorescent dye
Embryo was cultured on human tubal cells (coculture)
Red-stained cells (trophectoderm) - would become placenta
Blue-stained cells are inner cell mass - fetal cells

Low quality blastocysts

Poor quality day 6 IVF blastocyst

Blastocyst showing poor morphology in cells of both components - the inner cell mass (at 6 to 9 o'clock) and the trophectoderm (the rest of the cells)

Poor quality day 6 blastocyst
Many of the cells are necrotic (dead and disintegrating)

These low quality blastocysts are shown to indicate that blastocyst culture is not a magic bullet for infertility. Most human embryos do not have the genetic potential to develop normally to the blastocyst stage, hatch from their shells, implant and continue normal development in order to result in a live birth.

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