Is there a role for assisted reproductive technology in recurrent miscarriage?

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 548-556

  Vissenberg, Rosa ^a   Goddijn, Mariëtte ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

assisted reproductive technology; live birthrates; preimplantation genetic diagnosis; preimplantation genetic screening; Recurrent miscarriage

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE;

ANEUPLOIDY; ARTICLE; ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETIC SCREENING; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT ABORTION; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREIMPLANTATION DIAGNOSIS; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 83455205625     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: 15264564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1293208     Document Type: Article

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