Monitoring may be required to confirm that ovulation is occurring and to ensure that too many follicles are not developing. Blood tests for progesterone levels around the twenty-first day of the cycle provide an indication of ovulation (Q9.17). Ultrasound monitoring of follicular development is helpful with tablet treatment (clomiphene and tamoxifen) and is really essential with gonadotrophins. When controlled ovarian hyperstimulation is undertaken in IVF protocols, oestradiol levels are used. The need for monitoring hormone levels in IVF protocols has been questioned.1998-01, 2006-01
Related Medical Abstracts - Click on the paper title:-
- Monitoring ovarian stimulation: are hormonal assessments necessary? (2006-01)
- Follicle tracking of women receiving clomiphene citrate for ovulation induction. (2005-01)
- The role of infertility nurses in ovulation induction programmes (2001)
- Comparison of several one-step home urinary luteinizing hormone detection test kits to OvuQuick. (2001-02)
- The usefulness of a urinary LH kit for ovulation prediction during menstrual cycles of normal women. (1996-01)
- Is it possible to run a successful ovulation induction program based solely on ultrasound monitoring? The importance of endometrial measurements (1991-01)
- The clinical value of Clearplan home ovulation detection kits in infertility practice. (1991-02)
- Single serum progesterone measurement in the mid-luteal phase as an index of ovulation.(1987-01)
- Plasma progesterone levels as an index of ovulation. (1983-01)
- The value of a single serum progesterone measurement in the midluteal phase as a criterion of a potentially fertile cycle ("ovulation") derived form treated and untreated conception cycles. (1982-01)
- Plasma oestradiol and progesterone estimation for the monitoring of induction of ovulation with clomiphene and chorionic gonadotrophin. (1975-01)
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