Use of serum inhibin A and human chorionic gonadotropin measurements to predict the outcome of in vitro fertilization pregnancies

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-72

  Hauzman, Erik ^a   Fedorcsák, Péter ^a   Klinga, Klaus ^b   Papp, Zoltán ^a   Rabe, Thomas ^b   Strowitzki, Thomas ^b   Urbancsek, János ^a  

^a SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

hCG; In vitro fertilization; Inhibin A; Pregnancy outcome

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; INHIBIN A;

ABORTION; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OOCYTE DONATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0347986539     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2003.05.007     Document Type: Article

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