Treatment of Sperm With Platelet-activating Factor Does Not Improve Intrauterine Insemination Outcome in Unselected Cases of Mild Male Factor Infertility: A Prospective Double-blind Randomized Crossover Study

Urology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1025-1028

  Baka, Stavroula ^a   Grigoriou, Odysseas ^a   Hassiakos, Dimitris ^a   Konidaris, Socrates ^a   Papadias, Konstantinos ^a   Makrakis, Evangelos ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Embryo ART   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERMATOZOON COUNT;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 70350754341     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2009.06.023     Document Type: Article

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