Cycle regimens for frozen-thawed embryo transfer

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2017, Issue 7, 2017, Pages

  Ghobara, Tarek ^a   Gelbaya, Tarek A ^b   Ayeleke, Reuben Olugbenga ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b LEICESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSERELIN; BUSERELIN ACETATE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CLOMIFENE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRADIOL VALERATE; ESTROGEN; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; LETROZOLE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; NAFARELIN; PROGESTERONE; TRIPTORELIN; FERTILITY PROMOTING AGENT; GONADORELIN;

DRUG DOSE INCREASE; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FEMALE SUBFERTILITY; FREEZE THAWING; FROZEN THAWED EMBRYO TRANSFER; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; IN VITRO FERTILIZATION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRACYTOPLASMIC SPERM INJECTION; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGONISTS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; META ANALYSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES;

CLOMIPHENE; CRYOPRESERVATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FERTILITY AGENTS, FEMALE; FOLLICULAR PHASE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; OVULATION INDUCTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85021714654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD003414.pub3     Document Type: Review

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