Assisted reproduction using donor spermatozoa in women aged 40 and above: The high road or the low road?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 577-585

  De Brucker, Michaël ^a   Camus, Michel ^a   Haentjens, Patrick ^b   Verheyen, Greta ^a   Collins, John ^c,d   Tournaye, Herman ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

age; cumulative delivery rate; delivery; ICSI; IUI; life table analysis

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; FOLLITROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; PROGESTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DELIVERY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARIAN RESERVE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY DISORDER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPERM DONOR; SPERMATOZOON;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERMATOZOA;

EID: 84878539582     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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