A retrospective study on IVF outcome in euthyroid patients with anti-thyroid antibodies: Effects of levothyroxine, acetyl-salicylic acid and prednisolone adjuvant treatments

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Revelli, Alberto ^a   Casano, Simona ^a   Piane, Luisa D ^a   Grassi, Giuseppina ^a   Gennarelli, Gianluca ^a   Guidetti, Daniela ^b   Massobrio, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b LIVET Infertility and IVF Clinic   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BUSERELIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PREDNISONE; THYROID ANTIBODY; AUTOANTIBODY; PREDNISOLONE; THYROXINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG EFFICACY; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADOLESCENT; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASPIRIN; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71949105189     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-137     Document Type: Article

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