Seminal hyperviscosity is associated with poor outcome of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer: a prospective study

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1739-1743

  Esfandiari, Navid ^a   Burjaq, Hasan ^a   Gotlieb, Lynda ^a   Casper, Robert F ^a  

^a Toronto Centre for Advanced Reproductive Technology   (Canada)

Author keywords

embryo quality; in vitro fertilization; pregnancy outcome; Seminal hyperviscosity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VISCOSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPLANTATION; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMEN; SPERM COUNT; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERM MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISCOSITY;

EID: 55149116071     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.09.032     Document Type: Article

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