A flexible protocol for artificial preparation of the endometrium without prior gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist suppression in women with functioning ovaries undergoing frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 609-613

  Simon, Alex ^a   Hurwitz, Arye ^a   Pharhat, Murshid ^a   Revel, Ariel ^a   Zentner, Bat Sheva ^a   Laufer, Neri ^a  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Artificial cycle; Embryo cryopreservation; Embryo freezing; Embryo thawing; Endometrial preparation; Frozen thawed embryo transfer; GnRH agonist

Indexed keywords

ESTROFEM; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THAWING;

ADULT; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OVARY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINA;

EID: 0033014514     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(98)00539-1     Document Type: Article

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