Vasodilators for women undergoing fertility treatment

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Gutarra Vilchez, Rosa B ^a   Urrútia, Gerard ^b   Glujovsky, Demián ^c   Coscia, Andrea ^c   Bonfill Cosp, Xavier ^d  

^a MINISTERIO DE SALUD   (Peru)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^d UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; VASODILATOR AGENT;

ADVERSE EVENT; BIRTH RATE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; META ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH; DRUG EFFECTS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; NIDATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84921984494     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010001.pub2     Document Type: Review

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