Endometrial thickness is related to miscarriage rate, but not to the estradiol concentration, in cycles down-regulated with gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 998-1001

  Detti, Laura ^a   Yelian, Frank D ^a   Kruger, Michael L ^a   Diamond, Michael P ^a   Rode, Anuradha ^a   Mitwally, Mohamed F M ^a   Puscheck, Elizabeth E ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; ESTROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41749092349     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.04.027     Document Type: Article

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