A simple, inexpensive and effective artificial cycle with exogenous transdermal oestradiol and vaginal progesterone for the transfer of cryopreserved pronucleated human oocytes in women with normal cycles

Human Reproduction

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1999, Pages 222-230

  Bals Pratsch, Monika ^a   Al Hasani, Safaa ^a   Schöpper, Beate ^a   Diedrich, Christa ^a   Hoepfner, Anne Stefanie ^a   Weiss, Jürgen ^a   Küpker, Wolfgang ^a   Felberbaum, Ricardo ^a   Ortmann, Olaf ^a   Bauer, Otmar ^a   Diedrich, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial cycle; Cryopreserved pronucleated human oocytes; Targeted drug delivery; Transdermal therapeutic system; Vaginal progesterone gel

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE; OVULATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERMATID; TRANSDERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032827981     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/14.suppl_1.222     Document Type: Conference Paper

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