Cryopreserved embryo transfer in an artificial cycle: Is GnRH agonist down-regulation necessary?

Reproductive BioMedicine Online

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 588-594

  Van De Vijver, A ^a   Polyzos, N P ^a   Van Landuyt, L ^a   De Vos, M ^a   Camus, M ^a   Stoop, D ^a   Tournaye, H ^a   Blockeel, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

artificially prepared cycle; cryopreserved embryo transfer; endometrium; GnRH agonist; live birth rate

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; NOSE SPRAY; PROGESTERONE; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOWN REGULATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPPLEMENTATION; THAWING; WARMING; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; DRUG EFFECTS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIRTH RATE; BUSERELIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOWN-REGULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPERM INJECTIONS, INTRACYTOPLASMIC; TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84908396228     PISSN: 14726483     EISSN: 14726491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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