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Two different entities of spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation in a woman with FSH receptor mutation.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jun 2010
Dieterich M, Bolz M, Reimer T, Costagliola S, Gerber B
Abstract excerpt
Spontaneous ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is an extremely rare event. Normally OHSS is seen in the context of IVF. In 2003 a mutation of the FSH receptor (FSHR D567N) was identified for the first time as a cause of spontaneous OHSS. In most FSHR mutations, a hypersensitivity to human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) or thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) is described. This clinical case presents for the...
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