Reproductive BioMedicine Online
Volume 20, Issue 3 , Pages 314-319 , March 2010

Ovarian stimulation in women with high and low body mass index: GnRH agonist versus GnRH antagonist

  • Banu Kumbak

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yeditepe University Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Hande Akbas

      Affiliations

    • ART and Genetics Center, Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • Levent Sahin

      Affiliations

    • Jin-Fer IVF Unit, Diyarbakir, Turkey
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  • Guvenc Karlikaya

      Affiliations

    • ART and Genetics Center, Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • Hale Karagozoglu

      Affiliations

    • ART and Genetics Center, Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
    • ,
  • Semra Kahraman

      Affiliations

    • ART and Genetics Center, Memorial Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey

Received 28 May 2009 ,Revised 21 July 2009 ,Accepted 25 November 2009.

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 Banu Kumbak received her MD degree in 1996 from Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, and an Obstetrics and Gynaecology speciality degree in 2001 from Istanbul University Cerrahpasa Medical School, Turkey. She has been working in the area of assisted reproductive treatments since 2002. Her special interests are poor responder patients, ovarian stimulation protocols for assisted reproduction cycles and reproductive surgery.

PII: S1472-6483(09)00282-X

doi: 10.1016/j.rbmo.2009.11.027

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