Poor responders in IVF: Cancellation of a first cycle is not predictive of a subsequent failure

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1092, Issue , 2006, Pages 418-425

  Baka, Stavroula ^a   Makrakis, Evangelos ^a   Tzanakaki, Despoina ^a   Konidaris, Socrates ^a   Hassiakos, Dimitris ^a   Moustakarias, Theodoros ^a   Creatsas, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

IVF; Ovarian stimulation; Poor responders; Pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG POTENTIATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34247211586     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1365.040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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