Elevated oestradiol concentrations are not associated with increased first trimester miscarriage rates of singleton gestations conceived by assisted conception treatment

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-38

  Bahçeci, Mustafa ^a,b   Ulug, Ulun ^a   Erden, Halit Firat ^a   Mesut, Ali ^a   Jozwiak, Esra Aksoy ^a  

^a Bahçeci Women's Health Care Centre and German Hospital in Istanbul   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Early pregnancy loss; Oestradiol; Ovarian stimulation

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

EID: 30944453500     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)60977-7     Document Type: Article

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