Clinical characteristics and assisted reproductive technology outcomes in infertile foreign brides: Comparison with native brides in south Taiwan

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-34

  Chiang, Hsin Ju ^a   Huang, Fu Jen ^a   Lan, Kuo Chung ^a   Lin, Pin Yao ^a   Sung, Pei Hsun ^a   Kung, Fu Tsai ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Assisted reproductive technology; Foreign bride; Infertility; Native bride

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROUPS BY AGE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MARRIAGE; NIDATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; TAIWAN; UTERINE TUBE;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TAIWAN;

EID: 84859428499     PISSN: 10284559     EISSN: 18756263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tjog.2012.01.007     Document Type: Article

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