Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 4 , Pages 1498.e1-1498.e3 , October 2009

Renal artery dissection during an in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycle

  • Doron Shmorgun, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Ottawa Fertility Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Doron Shmorgun, M.D., Ottawa Fertility Centre, 955 Green Valley Crescent, Ottawa, ON K2C 3V4, Canada (FAX: 613-225-9736).
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  • Paul Claman, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Ottawa Fertility Centre, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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  • Penelope McGregor, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Family Medicine and Obstetrics, Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital, Smiths Falls, Ontario, Canada
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  • Brendan McCormick, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Division of Nephrology, The Ottawa Hospital, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Received 27 April 2009 ,Revised 11 June 2009 ,Accepted 22 June 2009.

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 D.S. has nothing to disclose. P.C. has nothing to disclose. P.M. has nothing to disclose. B.M. has nothing to disclose.

PII: S0015-0282(09)01418-6

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.06.045

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 92, Issue 4 , Pages 1498.e1-1498.e3 , October 2009

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