Dr. Alan H. Decherney MD
OB-GYN (Obstetrician-Gynecologist)
10 Center Dr 10crc Rm 1-3140 Bethesda MD, 20892About
Dr. Alan Decherney is an obstetrician-gynecologist practicing in Bethesda, MD. Dr. Decherney specializes in women's health, particularly the female reproductive system, pregnancy and childbirth. As an obstetrician-gynecologist, or OB-GYN, Dr. Decherney can treat a number of health issues related to the vagina, uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes and breasts. Dr Decherney can also treat women during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and the postpartum period. In this specialty, doctors focus on reproductive care from puberty through adulthood.
Board Certification
Obstetrics and GynecologyAmerican Board of Obstetrics and GynecologyABOG- 1979
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- An appraisal of barrier agents in the reduction of adhesion formation following surgery.
- Hormone receptors and sexuality in the human female.
- A model for initial care of the infertile couple.
- Postoperative fatigue negatively impacts the daily lives of patients recovering from hysterectomy.
- Endometriosis: recurrence and retreatment.
- History of regulation of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in the USA: a work in progress.
- Aldose reductase inhibition prevents galactose-induced ovarian dysfunction in the Sprague-Dawley rat.
- In vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) versus tubal surgery.
- Comparison of ovarian response in the same women with the same or different lots
- Assisted reproductive technology in the United States.
- Luteinizing response to human chorionic gonadotropin does not predict outcome in gonadotropin releasing hormone agonist-suppressed/human menopausal gonadotropin-stimulated in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles.
- Nafarelin versus leuprolide in ovulation induction for in vitro fertilization: a randomized clinical trial.
- Baseline ovarian cysts do not affect clinical response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation for in vitro fertilization.
- Corpus luteum function in successful in vitro fertilization cycles.
- Duplicate editorial on duplicate publication.
Awards
- 2011 Washington, DC-Baltimore-Northern Virginia Super Doctors
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