Is earlier administration of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) associated with the probability of pregnancy in cycles stimulated with recombinant follicle-stimulating hormone and gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists? A prospective randomized trial

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1112-1115

  Kyrou, Dimitra ^a   Kolibianakis, Efstratios M ^b   Fatemi, Human M ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^b   Tournaye, Herman ^a   Devroey, Paul ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

GnRH antagonist; hCG administration; IVF ICSI; pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GANIRELIX; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL MATURATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METAPHASE; OOCYTE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BELGIUM; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054987353     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.08.029     Document Type: Article

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