User:Mr. Ibrahem/Lutropin alfa

Lutropin alfa, sold under the brand name Luveris, is a medication used to treat infertility in women due to hypopituitarism. It is used together with follitropin alfa in those in who clomifene is not effective. It is given by injection under the skin.

Common side effects include headache, nausea, breast pain, abdominal pain, and ovarian cysts. Other side effects may include blood clots, ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, and multiple pregnancy. It is a form of luteinising hormone (LH) made by recombinant DNA techniques.

Lutropin alfa was approved for medical use in Europe in 2000. In the United Kingdom it costs about £31 per 75 unit dose as of 2021. It is not commercially available in the United States.