Enough is enough! Patients who do not conceive on 600 IU/d of gonadotropins show no improvement from an additional 150 IU of LH activity

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 372-373

  Maguire, Marcy ^a   Csokmay, John ^a   Segars, James ^a   Payson, Mark ^a   Armstrong, Alicia ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

cancellation rate; gonadotropin dose; Luteinizing hormone; miscarriage rate; pregnancy rate

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONCEPTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LEUPROLIDE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 78650416966     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.08.020     Document Type: Article

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