Providing fertility care to men seropositive for human immunodeficiency virus: reviewing 10 years of experience and 420 consecutive cycles of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 2455-2460

  Sauer, Mark V ^a   Wang, Jeff G ^a   Douglas, Nataki C ^a   Nakhuda, Gary S ^a   Vardhana, Pratibashri ^a   Jovanovic, Vuk ^a   Guarnaccia, Michael M ^a  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

HIV serodiscordant; ICSI; infertility; IVF; sperm washing

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; METHOTREXATE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE FERTILITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HEMOPHILIA A; HEPATITIS B; HEPATITIS C; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; SPERMATOZOA; VIRAL LOAD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67349265131     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.04.013     Document Type: Article

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