New horizon on successful management for a woman with repeated implantation failure due to unresponsive thin endometrium: Use of extended estrogen supplementation

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1092-1094

  Shen, Meng Shun ^a,b   Wang, Chia Woei ^a,b   Chen, Chi Huang ^a,b   Tzeng, Chii Ruey ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b School of Medicine   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Extended estrogen supplementation; Ovarian hyperstimulation; Pregnancy; Thin endometrium

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DELIVERY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; HYSTEROSALPINGOGRAPHY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MYOMECTOMY; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TWIN PREGNANCY; UTERUS MYOMA;

ADULT; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, TWIN; SUPEROVULATION; TERM BIRTH;

EID: 84880273272     PISSN: 13418076     EISSN: 14470756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1447-0756.2012.02070.x     Document Type: Article

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