Low-dose human menopausal gonadotrophin versus clomiphene citrate in subfertile couples treated with intrauterine insemination: A randomized controlled trial

Human Reproduction

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1079-1088

  Peeraer, Karen ^a   Debrock, Sophie ^a   De Loecker, Peter ^a   Tomassetti, C ^a   Laenen, A ^b   Welkenhuysen, M ^a   Meeuwis, L ^a   Pelckmans, S ^a   Mol, B W ^c   Spiessens, C ^a   De Neubourg, D ^a   D'Hooghe, T M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

clomiphene citrate; human menopausal gonadotrophin; intrauterine insemination; MAR; randomized

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; HUMAN; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPERMATOZOON CAPACITATION; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE TUBE; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; CLOMIPHENE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; INFERTILITY, MALE; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; MALE; MENOTROPINS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; SPERM MOTILITY;

EID: 84929761700     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/dev062     Document Type: Article

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