Assisted reproductive medicine in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 142, Issue MAY, 2012, Pages

  De Geyter, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Assisted reproduction; Embryo; Infertility; Multiple delivery; Population decline

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN;

CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FAMILY PLANNING; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HORMONAL CONTRACEPTION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAW; MATERNAL MORBIDITY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; OOCYTE DONATION; OOCYTE MATURATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION INHIBITION; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY RATE; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PUBLIC OPINION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ETHICS; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURITY;

CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; OOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; PREMATURE BIRTH; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84863605911     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2012.13569     Document Type: Review

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