Predictive value of the hemizona assay for pregnancy outcome in patients undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with intrauterine insemination

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1697-1707

  Arslan, Murat ^a,b   Morshedi, Mahmood ^a   Ozturk Arslan, Ebru ^a   Taylor, Steve ^a   Kanik, Arzu ^b   Duran, Hakan E ^a   Oehninger, Sergio ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MERSIN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Hemizona assay; intrauterine insemination; predictive value; pregnancy outcome; sperm function test

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FUNCTION TEST; HEMIZONA ASSAY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SPERMATOZOON DENSITY;

ADULT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM-OVUM INTERACTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33744521493     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2005.11.054     Document Type: Article

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