Factors predicting IVF treatment outcome: A multivariate analysis of 5310 cycles

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 645-649

  Elizur, Shai E ^a   Lerner Geva, Liat ^b,c   Levron, Jacob ^a   Shulman, Adrian ^a   Bider, David ^a   Dor, Jehoshua ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Delivery rate; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; BIRTH RATE; DATA BASE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18444413255     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61673-2     Document Type: Article

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