Experience with a novel vaginal progesterone preparation in a donor oocyte program

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 96-101

  Gibbons, William E ^a   Toner, James P ^a   Hamacher, Pamela ^a   Kolm, Paul ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technique; Donor egg; Endometrium; Implantation rate; Pregnancy; Progesterone; Vaginal progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN AGONIST; LEUPRORELIN; POLYCARBOPHIL; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM BIOPSY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OOCYTE DONATION; OVARY DISEASE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

17-ALPHA-HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; BIOPSY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; OOCYTE DONATION; OVARIAN FAILURE, PREMATURE; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031930673     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)00457-3     Document Type: Article

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