Ectopic pregnancy secondary to in vitro fertilisation-embryo transfer: Pathogenic mechanisms and management strategies

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Refaat, Bassem ^a   Dalton, Elizabeth ^b   Ledger, William L ^b  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted conception; Clinical management; Ectopic pregnancy; Fallopian tube; Infertility

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GEFITINIB; GLUCOSE; METHOTREXATE; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; RHESUS D ANTIBODY;

BLEEDING; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; EXPECTANT MOTHER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL HISTORY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECURRENCE RISK; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TROPHOBLAST; UTERINE TUBE PREGNANCY; UTERUS DISEASE; UTERUS RUPTURE; COMPLICATION; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INCIDENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC;

EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ECTOPIC; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84928038867     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12958-015-0025-0     Document Type: Review

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