Features
•Explains a new technology which helps in selecting the most viable embryos from a cohort and increases the chances of a positive outcome
•Includes material on equipment and clinical aspects
•Features illustrations with enlarged images, sequences, and video clips
•Incorporates the patient perspective
•Written by world-leading experts on the technique


Summary

Unlike conventional single daily observations, time lapse technology provides hundreds of images, which allows pinpointing of key events in the embryo’s in vitro development as well as the detection of brief but significant critical changes. This information is beneficial in selecting the most viable embryos from a cohort and increases the chances of a positive outcome.


The Atlas of Time Lapse Embryology describes in detail the technology and techniques surrounding time lapse embryology. The book also covers the clinical aspects of time lapse imaging, morphokinetic timings, implantation data, fertilization, compaction, blastulation, irregular cleavages, multinucleation, vacuolation, zona defects, and other topics.


The book is easy to read, practical, and illustrated with dozens of images and video clips to help explain a variety of concepts. It will help practitioners to better understand how time lapse monitoring may dramatically increase flexibility in the IVF clinic, and most importantly, enhance clinical outcomes.

Equipment Required for Time Lapse Observations in In Vitro Fertilization; Louise Best


Clinical Aspects of Time Lapse Imaging; Alison Campbell


Time Lapse, the Cell Cycle, Distribution of Morphokinetic Timings, and Known Implantation Data; Alison Campbell


Gender and Morphokinetics Correlation; Samantha Duffy


Polar-Body Extrusion; Colleen Lynch and Mercedes Reguiera


Fertilization: Pronuclear Formation and Fading; Louise Kellam and Laina Murphy


Clinical Results: Dynamic Aspects—Fragmentation; Sue Montgomery


Number of Pronuclei and Ploidy in IVF /ICSI—Derived Embryos; Abigail A. Burchill


Dynamic Aspects: Compaction; Sue Montgomery


Blastulation; Sue Montgomery


Hatching of the Human Blastocyst; Louise Kellam


Irregular Cleavages; Kathryn Berrisford and Ellen Cater


Reverse Cleavage/Blastomere Fusion; Davina Hulme


Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum Clusters; Cath Drezet


Multinucleation; Claire Shearer


Vacuolation; Rachel Smith


Granular Cytoplasm; Sarah Foley


Zona Defects; Gerri Emerson


The Patient Perspective; Samantha Duffy