A woman with polycystic ovary syndrome treated for infertility by in vitro fertilization

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 462-465

  Tang, Thomas ^a,b   Balen, Adam H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; PROLACTIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ABDOMINAL DRAINAGE; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADULT; ANOVULATION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CRYOPRESERVATION; CRYSTALLOID; DISEASE DURATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUID INTAKE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOCONCENTRATION; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; INTENSIVE CARE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOW DRUG DOSE; LUNG EDEMA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MENSTRUAL IRREGULARITY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REHYDRATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THYROID FUNCTION TEST; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URINE VOLUME; VOMITING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME;

EID: 70349226958     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2009.125     Document Type: Article

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