The biphasic pattern of end-expiratory carbon dioxide pressure: a method for identification of the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 731-736

  Hadžiomerović, Dijana ^a   Moeller, Kay Thomas ^a   Licht, Peter ^b   Hein, Achim ^c   Veitenhansel, Stephan ^c   Kusmitsch, Martina ^a   Wildt, Ludwig ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Kinderwunsch und Frauen Hormon Centrum   (Germany)

^c Hein and Partner Gbr Nürnberg   (Germany)

Author keywords

End tidal pCO2; fertile phase; menstrual cycle; natural family planning; respiration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMAN; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREATH TESTS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXHALATION; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; HUMANS; OVULATION DETECTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 51449109443     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.078     Document Type: Article

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