Live birth rates following natural cycle IVF in women with poor ovarian response according to the Bologna criteria

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3481-3486

  Polyzos, N P ^a   Blockeel, C ^a   Verpoest, W ^a   De Vos, M ^a   Stoop, D ^a   Vloeberghs, V ^a   Camus, M ^a   Devroey, P ^a   Tournaye, H ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bologna criteria poor responders; live birth rates; natural cycle IVF

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84869988391     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des318     Document Type: Article

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