Pregnancy in a woman with premature ovarian insufficiency undergoing intracytoplasmic sperm injection after pretreatment with estrogens followed by therapy with estrogens associated with ovarian stimulation with gonadotropins: Remarks about oocyte and embryo quality

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 932-934

  Tartagni, Massimo ^a   Damiani, Gianluca Raffaello ^a   Di Naro, Edoardo ^a   Persiani, Paolo ^b   Crescini, Claudio ^b   Loverro, Giuseppe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b Presenti Fenaroli Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estrogen pretreatment; Gonadotropins; Intracytoplasmic sperm injection; Ovarian stimulation; Premature ovarian insufficiency

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTROGEN DERIVATIVE; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; GONADOTROPIN DERIVATIVE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONCEPTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; PREGNANCY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREMEDICATION; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051550662     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820dc48d     Document Type: Article

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