Low-molecular-weight heparin in women with repeated implantation failure

Women's Health

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 425-431

  Lodigiani, Corrado ^a   Di Micco, Pierpaolo ^a,b   Ferrazzi, Paola ^a   Librè, Luca ^a   Arfuso, Veronica ^a   Polatti, Franco ^c   Michela, Benigna ^c   Rossini, Roberta ^c   Morenghi, Emanuela ^a   Rota, Lidia ^a   Brenner, Benjamin ^d   Paolo, Emanuele Levi Setti ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Fatebenefratelli Hospital of Naples   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^d TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction techniques; Factor V Leiden; female infertility; low molecular weight heparin; MTHFR C677T; prothrombin A20210G; repeated implantation failure; thrombophilia

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; DALTEPARIN; ENOXAPARIN; FOLLITROPIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NADROPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; SMOKING HABIT; THROMBOPHILIA; TREATMENT FAILURE;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HEPARIN, LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79960936778     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/whe.11.38     Document Type: Article

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