Endometrial scratch vs no intervention in egg donation cycles: the ENDOSCRATCH trial protocol

A flexible protocol for the induction of recipient endometrial cycles in an oocyte donation programme.

Synchronization of the availability of good quality oocytes from donors and adequate endometrial maturation of recipients are very important for the success of an oocyte donation programme. A flexible protocol for the endometrial preparation of recipients is important in timing embryo transfer between days 17 and 19 of the cycle ('window of receptivity'). The purpose of this study was to evalua...

Effect of Adding Human Chorionic Gonadotropin to The Endometrial Preparation Protocol in Frozen Embryo Transfer Cycles

Systematic pelvic lymphadenectomy vs. no lymphadenectomy in early-stage endometrial carcinoma: randomized clinical trial.

BACKGROUND Pelvic lymph nodes are the most common site of extrauterine tumor spread in early-stage endometrial cancer, but the clinical impact of lymphadenectomy has not been addressed in randomized studies. We conducted a randomized clinical trial to determine whether the addition of pelvic systematic lymphadenectomy to standard hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy improves overal...

The Pain of Egg-Donation

Contemporary body practices providing an answer to the subjects’ demand for assisted reproduction procedures, question the subjective experience of pain. The psychoanalytic approach of pain introduces the dimension of the unconscious in bodily experiences. Clinical field work and psychoanalytic psychotherapy with an infertile woman after failed egg-donation in vitro fertilization cycles, allows...

Does the Endometrial Scratch Improve Implantation Rates?

Implantation is one of the most crucial steps in the process of reproduction. Implantation failure is often due to impaired uterine receptivity. Assisted Reproduction techniques are used in order to overcome fertility problems. The endometrial scratch (ES) is a relatively new technique that is said to improve the probability of a successful pregnancy in some women. 1 Although the exact mechanis...