A comparison of the efficacy, tolerability, and convenience of two formulations of follitropin-α in Iranian woman undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1043-1048

  Aghssa, Malek Mansour ^a   Azargoon, Azam ^a   Ramezanzadeh, Fatame ^a   Bagheri, Maryam ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Follitropin ; ICSI; local tolerance; pen device; recombinant human FSH (r hFSH)

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEN DEVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SYRINGE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; DRUG COMPOUNDING; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; IRAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OVULATION INDUCTION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 52949111554     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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