Vasodilators for women undergoing fertility treatment

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2018, Issue 10, 2018, Pages

  Gutarra Vilchez, Rosa B ^a   Bonfill Cosp, Xavier ^b   Glujovsky, Demián ^c   Viteri García, Andres ^d   Runzer Colmenares, Fernando M ^a   Martinez Zapata, Maria José ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE SAN MARTÍN DE PORRES   (Peru)

^b BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE SANT PAU IIB SANT PAU   (Spain)

^c Centro de Estudios en Ginecologia y Reproduccion Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

^d School of Engineering Sciences and Industry   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ESTROGEN; PLACEBO; PROGESTERONE; VASODILATOR AGENT;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTIPATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DATA EXTRACTION; DATA SYNTHESIS; DIZZINESS; DRUG SAFETY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE INFERTILITY; HEADACHE; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSOMNIA; LIVE BIRTH; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; NERVOUSNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEAKNESS; WOMEN'S HEALTH; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; META ANALYSIS; NIDATION; PREGNANCY;

EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 85054747288     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010001.pub3     Document Type: Review

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