Effects of culture medium on HCG concentrations and their value in predicting successful IVF outcome

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 590-598

  Orasanu, Bogdan ^a   Jackson, Katharine V ^a   Hornstein, Mark D ^a   Racowsky, Catherine ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture media; Embryo transfer; HCG cut off value; Human chorionic gonadotrophin; ICSI; IVF

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646428412     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1472-6483(10)61185-6     Document Type: Article

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