High progesterone levels in women with high ovarian response do not affect clinical outcomes: A retrospective cohort study

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Requena, Antonio ^a   Cruz, María ^a   Bosch, Ernesto ^a   Meseguer, Marcos ^a   García Velasco, Juan A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INFERTILIDAD   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical outcomes; High progesterone; High responders; Ovarian response

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; ESTRADIOL; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; RECOMBINANT LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT PARAMETERS; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARIAN RESPONSE; OVARY FUNCTION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLICULAR PHASE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPAIN; UPREGULATION; YOUNG ADULT; EMBRYO; FREEZE THAWING; NIDATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; COHORT STUDIES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FOLLICULAR PHASE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; OOGENESIS; OVARY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SPAIN; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; UP-REGULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904780384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-12-69     Document Type: Article

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