Agonist depot versus OCP programming of frozen embryo transfer: a retrospective analysis of freeze-all cycles

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 207-214

  Ozgur, Kemal ^a   Berkkanoglu, Murat ^a   Bulut, Hasan ^a   Humaidan, Peter ^b   Coetzee, Kevin ^a  

^a Antalya IVF   (Turkey)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Artificial cycle; FET; Freeze all; GnRHa; OCP; Programming

Indexed keywords

CETRORELIX; ESTRADIOL; ETHINYLESTRADIOL PLUS GESTODENE; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LEUPRORELIN; PROGESTERONE; RECOMBINANT FOLLITROPIN; TRIPTORELIN; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; GONADORELIN; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO CULTURE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; METABOLISM; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROGESTERONE; REPRODUCTIVE TECHNIQUES, ASSISTED;

EID: 84958761136     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0639-3     Document Type: Article

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