Can history, ultrasound, or ELISA chlamydial antibodies, alone or in combination, predict tubal factor infertility in subfertile women?

Human Reproduction

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2350-2356

  Logan, Susan ^a   Gazvani, Rafet ^a   McKenzie, Hamish ^b   Templeton, Allan ^a   Bhattacharya, Siladitya ^a  

^a ABERDEEN MATERNITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chlamydia trachomatis antibody test; Medical history; Subfertility; Transvaginal ultrasound; Tubal infertility

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; DYE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; CHLAMYDIASIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LAPAROSCOPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREDICTION; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SUBFERTILITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; UTERINE TUBE DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHLAMYDIA TRACHOMATIS; FELIS CATUS; RICKETTSIALES;

EID: 0242522132     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/deg471     Document Type: Article

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