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Hum. Reprod. Advance Access published online on August 6, 2008
Human Reproduction, doi:10.1093/humrep/den313
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Letter to the Editor

Reply: Thrombophilic screening in clinical practice should be evidence-based

José Bellver1,3 and Sergio R. Soares2

1 Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad (IVI), Universidad de Valencia, Plaza de la Policía Local 3, 46015 Valencia, Spain 2 IVI Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

3 Correspondence address. Tel: +34-963050900; Fax: +34-963050999; E-mail: jbellver@ivi.es

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Sir,

We appreciate the comments by Drs Ricci and Simenone (2008)Go and agree that thrombophilia screening should not be currently recommended in women with implantation failure (IF). Our published study (Bellver et al., 2008Go) suggested a possible relationship between thrombophilia and IF (as other previous papers have done—Coulam, 2006Go; Qublan et al., 2006Go) and, therefore, thrombophilia could constitute an etiologic factor for IF. The sample size considered in our work according to the strict inclusion criteria employed is not big enough to give . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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