Best practices of ASRM and ESHRE: A journey through reproductive medicine

Human Reproduction

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3365-3379

  Gianaroli, L ^a   Racowsky, C ^b   Geraedts, J ^c   Cedars, M ^d   Makrigiannakis, A ^e   Lobo, R ^f  

^a Reproductive Medicine Unit   (Italy)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^f Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

assisted reproduction; embryo implantation; menopause; ovarian cancer; reproductive endocrinology

Indexed keywords

1,2 DIBROMO 3 CHLOROPROPANE; 4,4' ISOPROPYLIDENEDIPHENOL; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIESTROGEN; AROMATASE INHIBITOR; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; METFORMIN; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PLACEBO; STEROID;

ANEUPLOIDY; ANTRAL FOLLICLE COUNT; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; BLASTOCYST; CANCER RISK; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CRYOPRESERVATION; CULTURE MEDIUM; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DUAL EMBRYO TRANSFER; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ELECTIVE SINGLE EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FETUS WASTAGE; GAMETE; GENETIC SCREENING; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEART INFARCTION; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; MENOPAUSE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NATURAL ORIFICE TRANSLUMINAL ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; NONHUMAN; OOCYTE; OOCYTE CRYOPRESERVATION; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN RESERVE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CANCER; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY FUNCTION; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PREMATURE AGING; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT IMPLANTATION FAILURE; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE BLASTOCYST TRANSFER; SPERMATOZOON; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TWIN PREGNANCY; ZYGOTE;

EID: 84870044646     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/des338     Document Type: Article

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