First successful pregnancy after addition of enoxaparin to sildenafil and etanercept immunotherapy in woman with fifteen failed IVF cycles - case report

American Journal of Reproductive Immunology

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 93-96

  Jerzak, Małgorzata ^a   Niemiec, Tomasz ^b   Nowakowska, Anna ^b   Klochowicz, Monika ^c   Górski, Andrzej ^c   Baranowski, Włodzimierz ^a  

^a MILITARY INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF MOTHER AND CHILD   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Etanercept; Infertility; NK cell

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; ENOXAPARIN; ETANERCEPT; FENOTEROL; METHYLDOPA; NIFEDIPINE; SILDENAFIL; VERAPAMIL; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SULFONE; TNFR-FC FUSION PROTEIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; IMMUNOLOGY; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENOXAPARIN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LIVE BIRTH; MIDDLE AGED; PIPERAZINES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PURINES; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; SULFONES; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 77958094698     PISSN: 10467408     EISSN: 16000897     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0897.2010.00826.x     Document Type: Article

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