The use of vaginal natural progesterone for prevention of preterm birth in IVF/ICSI pregnancies

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 133-138

  Aboulghar, Mona M ^a,b   Aboulghar, Mohamed A ^a,b   Amin, Yahia M ^a   Al Inany, Hisham G ^a,b   Mansour, Ragaa T ^a   Serour, Gamal I ^a  

^a Egyptian IVF Center   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

IVF ICSI; preterm birth; singleton pregnancy; twin pregnancy; vaginal natural progesterone

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TWIN PREGNANCY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; EGYPT; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGESTERONE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864454913     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2012.03.013     Document Type: Article

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