Affordable ART for developing countries: A cost benefit comparison of low dose stimulation versus high dose GnRH antagonist protocol

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 297-303

  Noorashikin, M ^a   Ong, F B ^b   Omar, M H ^b   Zainul Rashid, M R ^b   Murad, A Z ^c   Shamsir, A ^d   Norsina, M A ^c   Nurshaireen, A ^b   Sharifah Teh, N S M N ^b   Fazilah, A H ^b  

^a Hospital Sultanah Bahiyah   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA MEDICAL CENTER   (Malaysia)

^c INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^d UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA SARAWAK   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

ART; GnRH antagonist; ICSI; Low dose stimulation; Ovarian stimulation

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; MALE; OOCYTES; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50249128650     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-008-9239-9     Document Type: Article

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