Mid-cycle serum levels of endogenous LH are not associated with the likelihood of pregnancy in artificial frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles without pituitary suppression

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2589-2593

  Griesinger, Georg ^a   Weig, M ^a   Schroer, A ^a   Diedrich, K ^a   Kolibianakis, E M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Clinical pregnancy; Frozen thawed embryo transfer; Luteinizing hormone; Progesterone

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FETUS; FREEZE THAWING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PARITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 34548757885     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dem207     Document Type: Article

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