Euthyroid women with autoimmune disease undergoing assisted reproduction technologies: The role of autoimmunity and thyroid function

Journal of Endocrinological Investigation

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-8

  Negro, Rob ^a   Formosa, G ^a   Coppola, L ^b   Presicce, G ^b   Mangieri, T ^b   Pezzarossa, A ^c   Dazzi, D ^c  

^a AUSL LE/1   (Italy)

^b Department of Physiopathology of Human Reproduction ^*  (Italy)

^c Department of Internal Medicine   (Italy)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Autoimmunity; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL PERIOD; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 33947500399     PISSN: 03914097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03347388     Document Type: Article

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