Does the addition of menopausal gonadotropin to recombinant FSH in pituitary suppressed women improve clinical pregnancy in an intracytoplasmic sperm injection program?

Middle East Fertility Society Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 30-35

  Loutradis, Dimitris ^a   Stefanidis, Konstantinos ^a,b   Drakakis, Peter ^a   Kallianidis, Konstantinos ^a   Kallipolitis, Georgios ^a   El Sheih, Alexandros ^a   Milingos, Spyridon ^a   Michalas, Stylianos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

hMG; ICSI; IVF ET; Long protocol; rFSH

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY CYCLE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038709435     PISSN: 11105690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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