Transfer and uterine factors are the major recipient-related determinants of success with donor eggs

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 850-856

  Zenke, Ulrike ^a   Chetkowski, Ryszard J ^a,b  

^a Alta Bates Vitro Fertilization Prog   (United States)

^b Alta Bates Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

aging of the uterus; donor egg outcome; donor egg recipients; Egg donation; embryo implantation; endometrial thickness; ET; uterine factor infertility; uterine receptivity; uterine senescence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE TRANSPORT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECIPIENT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; UTERUS; ZYGOTE;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OOCYTE DONATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; UTERUS;

EID: 5144231772     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2004.03.057     Document Type: Article

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