Preovulatory progesterone concentration associates significantly to follicle number and LH concentration but not to pregnancy rate

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 187-195

  Yding Andersen, Claus ^a   Bungum, Leif ^b   Nyboe Andersen, Anders ^c   Humaidan, Peter ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^d SKIVE REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

ovarian stimulation; pregnancy outcome; progesterone elevation

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN AGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NAFARELIN ACETATE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; OVARIAN FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC;

EID: 79961173173     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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