Preventing high-order multiple pregnancies during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination: 3 Years' experience using low-dose recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 619-624

  Ragni, Guido ^a   Caliari, Ilaria ^a,b   Nicolosi, Anna Elisa ^a,b   Arnoldi, Mariangela ^a,b   Somigliana, Edgardo ^a   Crosignani, Pier Giorgio ^a,b  

^a FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Intrauterine insemination; Mild ovarian hyperstimulation; Multiple pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN AGONIST; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG USE; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TWINS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32944481455     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.09.021     Document Type: Article

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