Strategies for the management of OHSS: Results from freezing-all cycles

Jornal Brasileiro de Reproducao Assistida

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 8-12

  Borges, Edson ^a,b   Braga, Daniela Paes Almeida Ferreira ^a,b,c   Setti, Amanda S ^a,b   Vingris, Livia S ^a   Figueira, Rita Cássia S ^a   Iaconelli, Assumpto ^a  

^a Fertility Medical Group   (Brazil)

^b Instituto Sapientiae   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Freezing; GnRHa; hCG; OHSS; Thawing; Trigger

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN; LHRH, ALA(6)-GLY(10)-ETHYLAMIDE-;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; FREEZE ALL CYCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPLANTATION; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PROCEDURES; OOCYTE; OOCYTE RETRIEVAL; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; PREGNANCY TEST; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OVARIAN HYPERSTIMULATION SYNDROME; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 84959564563     PISSN: 15175693     EISSN: 15180557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5935/1518-0557.20160003     Document Type: Article

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