Menotropins
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Menotropin is an active substance for the treatment of fertility disturbances.
It is extracted from human urine and contains the two hormones LH and FSH.
Because of the risk that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) could be transferred by the, the Swiss medical board of control, Swissmedic, decreed that a supplemental warning must be provided, although as yet not one CJD infection has been transferred through human urine.
In a complaint before their Federal court, the manufacturer objected that Menotropin from other kinds of mammals must carry however no reference.
Approximately 20 % of the women treated with Menotropin have a multiple pregnancy.
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