Intra-uterine insemination for unexplained subfertility

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Veltman Verhulst, Susanne M ^a   Hughes, Edward ^b   Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga ^c   Cohlen, Ben J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^d ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIFENE CITRATE; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE;

ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE INSEMINATION; LIVE BIRTH; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVULATION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SUBFERTILITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; UNEXPLAINED SUBFERTILITY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL INSEMINATION; COITUS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; INFERTILITY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR;

COITUS; FEMALE; FERTILE PERIOD; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL; LIVE BIRTH; MALE; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PREGNANCY, MULTIPLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84969528879     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001838.pub5     Document Type: Review

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