Pergonal

American

[pur-guh-nal] / ˈpɜr gəˌnæl /

Pharmacology, Trademark.

a brand name for a preparation containing FSH and LH obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women, prepared for injection in both men and women in the treatment of certain kinds of infertility.

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Today in-vitro clinics help nature along by administering such drugs as Clomid and Pergonal, which can result in the development of more than one egg at a time.

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"We do not give Pergonal unless we are able to monitor."

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It takes three gallons of urine to produce enough of the extract, called Pergonal, for one injection.

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Of 80 patients treated with Clomid and Pergonal in sequence, most of those with simple ovulation problems became pregnant and had babies.

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When it proved ineffective, doctors switched her to Pergonal,* which frequently causes a woman to release more than one egg a month and has been linked to previous multiple births.

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