Minimal stimulation IVF using clomiphene citrate and oral contraceptive pill pretreatment for LH suppression

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 587-590

  Branigan, Emmett F ^a   Estes, M Antoinette ^a  

^a Bellingham IVF and Infertility Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Clomiphene citrate; Minimal stimulation IVF; Oral contraceptive pills; Suppression

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; DESOGESTREL PLUS ETHINYLESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; OOCYTE MATURATION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMERICAS; BIOLOGY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLOMIPHENE; CONTRACEPTION; CONTRACEPTIVE METHODS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILITY AGENTS; FERTILIZATION; GONADOTROPINS; GONADOTROPINS, PITUITARY; HORMONES; IN VITRO; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE CONTROL AGENTS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH REPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; BENZALKONIUM COMPOUNDS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIPHENE; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL, HORMONAL; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033960837     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00584-1     Document Type: Article

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