Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 923-929 , September 2009

Low-dose aspirin in non-tubal IVF patients with previous failed conception: a prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial

Received 20 May 2008 ,Revised 15 July 2008 ,Accepted 21 July 2008.

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 Candidate paper for the General Program Prize, American Society for Reproductive Medicine Annual Meeting, 13-17 October, 2007.

 The trial is registered with the Dutch Trial Register and as an International Standard Randomized Clinical Trial, no. ISRNCTM97507474.

PII: S0015-0282(08)03282-2

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2008.07.1759

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 3 , Pages 923-929 , September 2009

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