Letrozole, Gonadotropin, or Clomiphene for Unexplained Infertility.

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Published in N Engl J Med on September 24, 2015

Authors

Michael P Diamond1, Richard S Legro, Christos Coutifaris, Ruben Alvero, Randal D Robinson, Peter Casson, Gregory M Christman, Joel Ager, Hao Huang, Karl R Hansen, Valerie Baker, Rebecca Usadi, Aimee Seungdamrong, G Wright Bates, R Mitchell Rosen, Daniel Haisenleder, Stephen A Krawetz, Kurt Barnhart, J C Trussell, Dana Ohl, Yufeng Jin, Nanette Santoro, Esther Eisenberg, Heping Zhang, NICHD Reproductive Medicine Network

Author Affiliations

1: From the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Georgia Regents University, Augusta (M.P.D.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit (M.P.D., J.A., S.A.K.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey (R.S.L.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia (C.C., K.B.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Colorado, Denver (R.A., N.S.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio (R.D.R.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Vermont, Burlington (P.C.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (G.M.C., D.O.); Department of Biostatistics, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT (H.H., Y.J., H.Z.); Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City (K.R.H.); Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA (V.B.); Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC (R.U.); University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark (A.S.); University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham (G.W.B.); Department of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco (R.M.R.); Ligand Core Laboratory, University of Virginia Center for Research in Reproduction, Charlottesville (D.H.); Upstate University Hospital, Syracuse, NY (J.C.T.); and Fertility and Infertility Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Rockville, MD (E.E.).

Associated clinical trials:

Assessment of Multiple Intrauterine Gestations From Ovarian Stimulation (AMIGOS) | NCT01044862

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