The benefit of human chorionic gonadotropin supplementation throughout the secretory phase of frozen-thawed embryo transfer cycles

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 351-354

  Ben Meir, Assaf ^a   Aboo Dia, Mushira ^a   Revel, Ariel ^a   Eizenman, Einat ^a   Laufer, Neri ^a   Simon, Alex ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

frozen thawed embryo transfer; hCG; implantation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; ESTROFEM; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; ECHOGRAPHY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE INFERTILITY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THAWING;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FREEZING; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 74849133196     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.02.027     Document Type: Article

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