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testing a frozen embryo?

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can pgd testing be done on a 3day frozen embryo or does it need to be thawed and cultured to 5days?
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Hi:
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can pgd testing be done on a 3day frozen embryo or does it need to be thawed and cultured to 5days? It can be thawed, then biopsied, and then cultured to and transferred on Day 5.
Good luck.


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I have 5 5-day frozen embryos and want to get them tested. My son has myotonic muscular dystrophy and the chances of me passing it is 50% each pregnancy. Can my frozen embryos be tested? Do they need to be used once they are thawed for testing or can they be re-frozen? Does re-freezing make them less viable?
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Hi:

I am clearing old posts and see that this one was never answered. My apologies.

In most cases frozen embryos can be thawed at the blastocyst stage or thawed and grown to blastocyst, biopsied and then re-frozen awaiting the results of the PGD.

Again my apologies for the delay in answering.

Arthur L. Wisot, M. D.
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Redondo Beach, California
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