title: The use of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) in clinical in vitro fertilization: the role of Georgeanna Seegar Jones.
abstract: The use of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) to recruit multiple oocytes is now common practice worldwide in most clinical programs of in vitro fertilization (IVF). It was not always so. This is the story of the first successful use of exogenous gonadotropins in a clinical program of IVF.
authors: Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia 23507, USA. joneshw@evms.edu
authors: Howard W
authors: HW
authors: Jones
mesh_terms: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin / Q000266:history; D005260:Female; D005300:Fertility Agents, Female / Q000266:history*; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007247:Infertility, Female / Q000266:history* / Q000628:therapy; D008596:Menotropins / Q000266:history; D033262:Narration; D010062:Ovulation Induction / Q000266:history*; D011247:Pregnancy; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000266:history*; D014768:Virginia
chemical_list: D006063:Chorionic Gonadotropin; D005300:Fertility Agents, Female; D008596:Menotropins