Safe Gonadotrophins
Chapter
Abstract
Gonadotrophs therapy is a special kind of therapy in more than one way. Couples visiting an infertility clinic are not patients in the classical sense of the word: they are not really ill, their condition is not life-threatening and most of them can lead a normal life without treatment. That makes treatment highly elective in the sense that the benefit/risk ratio must be extremely high. Also the therapy itself has something special: we are not talking about chemical substances produced de novo in a laboratory, but about hormones, produced by the human body, excreted through body fluids and extracted from urine and purified in the factory.
Keywords
Sickle Cell Anemia Assist Reproductive Technology Acquire Immunodeficiency Syndrome Virus Contamination Infertility Clinic
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