Low-intensity IVF: real progress?

Bye-bye urinary gonadotrophins? Recombinant FSH: a real progress in ovulation induction and IVF?

Whether recombinant gonadotrophin products do, indeed, represent progress for routine ovulation induction and IVF cycles, in comparison with urinary products, has remained controversial. Here we review published data with regard to respective risks, outcomes and cost for both medication options. Safety considerations favour recombinant products, while overall outcome and cost considerations fav...

I-6: IVF in Low Resources Countries

Real-Time Maximum Intensity Projection

Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) is a volume rendering technique which is used to extract high-intensity structures from volumetric data. At each pixel the highest data value encountered along the corresponding viewing ray is determined. MIP is commonly used to extract vascular structures from medical MRI data sets (angiography). The usual way to compensate for the loss of spatial and occlusi...

RCT of real versus placebo acupuncture in IVF.

Sir, In 1993, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a booklet on the Standard Acupuncture Nomenclature after a WHO-consensus meeting in the Philippines (WHO, 1993). Needless to say that this publication, which was not at all peer reviewed, did not contain any reference to anatomic structures as we know them from the anatomic theatre or from our operation theatres. To the ‘acupoints’ men...

Low Intensity Pulsed Ultrasound (LIPUS)

The application of ultrasound energy at much lower levels than is the current clinical norm is starting to gain ground as a therapeutic possibility. Clearly the applied energy is the same, it is the ‘dose’ which is different – most importantly, the intensity (W/cm) – which is MUCH lower – typically 2 or 3 times lower than the lowest setting on most regular clinical machines, with the most commo...