The cohort of antral follicles measuring 2-6 mm reflects the quantitative status of ovarian reserve as assessed by serum levels of anti-Müllerian hormone and response to controlled ovarian stimulation

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1775-1781

  Jayaprakasan, Kannamannadiar ^a   Deb, Shilpa ^a   Batcha, Milhan ^a   Hopkisson, James ^a   Johnson, Ian ^a   Campbell, Bruce ^a   Raine Fenning, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

anti M llerian hormone; automated antral follicle count; In vitro fertilization; ovarian reserve; sono AVC; three dimensional (3D) ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; NAFARELIN ACETATE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; INHIBIN; INHIBIN B; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTION THERAPY; AUTOMATION; BLOOD LEVEL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDY; METABOLISM; OOCYTE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INHIBINS; OOCYTES; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 77957198336     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.10.022     Document Type: Article

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