The following medications are used in stimulation protocols:
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues / agonists:[/li_item]
- short-acting preparations (most often one-day),
- long-acting preparations (most often one-month).
- Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists:
- one-day preparations,
- preparations acting for 4 days.
- Medications stimulating follicle growth in ovaries (gonadotropins):
- preparations obtained with the genetic recombination technique: rFSH preparations, rLH preparations, mixed rFSH and rLH preparations,
- gonadotropins obtained from the urine of postmenopausal women: FSH, mixed preparations: FSH and with LF activity.
- Medications causing the “pharmacological LH surge”:
- obtained with the genetic recombination technique (rhCG),
- obtained from the urine of pregnant women (hCG),
- GnRH agonists in cycles with GnRH antagonist.