Sentences with phrase «measure ovarian reserve»
Doctors commonly try to measure ovarian reserve, the amount of viable eggs still in the ovary, when trying to determine fertility.
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The most important measure of fertility as women age is ovarian reserve, or the egg supply in the ovaries.
Dr. Tordjman and her colleagues studied the effect of radioactive iodine treatment on the ovarian reserve of women treated for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) by measuring their blood levels of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) and following the patients for up to one year after treatment.
Instead, he recommends an AMH test, a blood test that measures levels of anti-Müellerian hormone, another marker for ovarian reserve.