Endometrial preparation for women undergoing embryo transfer with frozen embryos or embryos derived from donor oocytes

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2020, Issue 10, 2020, Pages

  Glujovsky, Demián ^a   Pesce, Romina ^b   Sueldo, Carlos ^a   Quinteiro Retamar, Andrea Marta ^a   Hart, Roger J ^c   Ciapponi, Agustín ^d  

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

^b HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS AND HEALTH POLICY   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ESTROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; GONADORELIN ANTAGONIST; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; CLOMIFENE; FOLLITROPIN; GESTAGEN; GONADORELIN; LETROZOLE;

BIRTH RATE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DONOR; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; ENDOMETRIAL PREPARATION; ENDOMETRIAL THICKNESS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFERTILITY THERAPY; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE PREGNANCY; OOCYTE; PREGNANCY RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG EFFECT; ENDOMETRIUM; MAMMALIAN EMBRYO; META ANALYSIS; NIDATION; OOCYTE DONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL BIAS;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; BIAS; CLOMIPHENE; CRYOPRESERVATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMBRYO IMPLANTATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; LETROZOLE; LIVE BIRTH; OOCYTE DONATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY RATE; PROGESTERONE; PROGESTINS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 85094823502     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006359.pub3     Document Type: Review

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