Accelerated decline in pregnancy rate after in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer in 35-41-year-old women: 15 years' experience in the Okinawa Islands, Japan

Reproductive Medicine and Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 51-57

  Teruya, Yoko ^a   Kamiyama, Shigeru ^a   Hirakawa, Makoto ^a   Yamashiro, Kie ^a   Kanazawa, Koji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age; Embryo transfer; In vitro fertilization; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 33748472089     PISSN: 14455781     EISSN: 14470578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0578.2006.00123.x     Document Type: Article

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