Effect of levothyroxine treatment on in vitro fertilization and pregnancy outcome in infertile women with subclinical hypothyroidism undergoing in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1650-1654

  Kim, Chung Hoon ^a   Ahn, Jun Woo ^a   Kang, Sunjung Park ^a   Kim, Sung Hoon ^a   Chae, Hee Dong ^a   Kang, Byung Moon ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

IVF; Levothyroxine; pregnancy; subclinical hypothyroidism

Indexed keywords

LEVOTHYROXINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NIDATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; THYROXINE;

EID: 79952992255     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.12.004     Document Type: Article

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