Preconception Steroid Treatment in Infertile Women with Antithyroid Autoimmunity Undergoing Ovarian Stimulation and Intrauterine Insemination: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Prospective Cohort Study

Clinical Therapeutics

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2415-2421

  Turi, Angelo ^a   Giannubilo, Stefano Raffaele ^a   Zanconi, Sara ^a   Mascetti, Alessandra ^a   Tranquilli, Andrea Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Corticosteroids; Intrauterine insemination; Miscarriage; Pregnancy; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PLACEBO; PREDNISONE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONCEPTION; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRECONCEPTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; OVULATION INDUCTION; PRECONCEPTION CARE; PREDNISONE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79951820638     PISSN: 01492918     EISSN: 1879114X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinthera.2011.01.010     Document Type: Article

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