Oral contraceptive pretreatment significantly reduces ongoing pregnancy likelihood in gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist cycles: An updated meta-analysis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2382-2384

  Griesinger, Georg ^a   Kolibianakis, Efstratios Michaelis ^b   Venetis, Christos ^b   Diedrich, Klaus ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

antide; cetrorelix; ganirelix; GnRH antagonists; oral contraceptive pill; ovarian stimulation

Indexed keywords

DESOGESTREL; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; LEVONORGESTREL; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; CUMULUS OOPHORUS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 78049301586     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.04.025     Document Type: Article

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