The adjuvant effect of metformin and N -acetylcysteine to clomiphene citrate in induction of ovulation in patients with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Gynecological Endocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 635-638

  Maged, Ahmed M ^a   Elsawah, Heba ^a   Abdelhafez, Aly ^a   Bakry, Ahmed ^a   Mostafa, Walaa Ai ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Clomiphene citrate; induction of ovulation; metformin; N acetylcysteine; Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CLOMIFENE CITRATE; ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; METFORMIN; PROLACTIN; CLOMIFENE; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GESTATIONAL SAC; HIRSUTISM; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVARY FOLLICLE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; ADULT; CLOMIPHENE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; METFORMIN; OVULATION; OVULATION INDUCTION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84942833984     PISSN: 09513590     EISSN: 14730766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/09513590.2015.1037269     Document Type: Article

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