Improvement in diminished ovarian reserve after dehydroepiandrosterone supplementation

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 360-365

  Gleicher, Norbert ^a,b   Weghofer, Andrea ^a,c   Barad, David H ^a,d  

^a New York and Foundation for Reproductive Medicine   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

age; anti M llerian hormone; dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); infertility; ovarian reserve

Indexed keywords

MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PRASTERONE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGING; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OOCYTE; OVARIAN RESERVE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; QUALITY CONTROL; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; ANTI-MULLERIAN HORMONE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; OVARY; PREGNANCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77957846809     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2010.04.006     Document Type: Article

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