Improved in vitro fertilization outcomes after treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism in infertile women

Endocrine Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 792-797

  Rahman, Ashraf Hany Abdel ^a   Abbassy, Hadeer Aly ^a   Abbassy, Aly Abd Elatif ^a  

^a ALEXANDRIA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; PLACEBO; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUPPLEMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78149297847     PISSN: 1530891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4158/EP09365.OR     Document Type: Article

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