Successful pregnancy and birth after sequential cotreatment with growth hormone and gonadotropins in a woman with panhypopituitarism: A new treatment protocol

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1248-1250

  Salle, Agnès ^a   Klein, Marc ^a   Pascal Vigneron, Véronique ^a   Dousset, Brigitte ^a   Leclere, Jacques ^a   Weryha, Georges ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NANCY   (France)

Author keywords

GH; Gonadotropins; Hypopituitarism; Ovulation induction; Pregnancy; Sterility

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; LEVONORGESTREL; LEVOTHYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; HYPOPITUITARISM; OVARY FOLLICLE MATURATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOPITUITARISM; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MALE; MENOTROPINS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0033634910     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01619-8     Document Type: Article

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2. Cotreatment with human growth hormone and gonadotropins for induction of ovulation; a controlled clinical trial
3. Growth hormone (GH) substitution in hypogonadotropic, GH-deficient women decreases the follicle-stimulating hormone threshold for monofollicular growth
4. The potentiating effect of growth hormone on follicle stimulation with human menopausal gonadotropin in a panhypopituitary patient