The sperm stress test: A novel test that predicts pregnancy in assisted reproductive technologies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 400-405

  Alvarez, J G ^a   Minaretzis, D ^a   Barrett, C B ^a   Mortola, J F ^a   Thompson, I E ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

in vitro fertilization; Sperm; sperm motility; stress test

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GAMETE INTRAFALLOPIAN TRANSFER; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030062389     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0015-0282(16)58107-2     Document Type: Article

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