BACKGROUND The counselling of poor ovarian responders about the probability of pregnancy remains a puzzle for gynaecologists. The aim of this study was to optimise the management of poor responders by investigating the role of the oocyte-derived factor bone morphogenetic protein-15 (BMP-15) combined with chronological age in the prediction of the outcome of in-vitro fertilisation-embryo transfe...

Background Many physicians are perplexed with an acute increase in the rate of pregnancies and live birth, and a decrease rate of abortions among the women in the Washington DC area. Healthcare managers are analyzing the admission and discharge data to understand this trend. There are many factors such as marital status, age, income, health problems during pregnancy, insurance coverage and othe...

BACKGROUND In recent years, single blastocyst transfer combined with vitrification has been applied widely, which can maximize the cumulative pregnancy rate in per oocyte retrieval cycles and minimize the multiple pregnancy rate. Thus, the guarantee for these is the effectiveness of vitrified blastocyst. Studies has shown that AS of the blastocoel cavity prior to vitrification can reduce injuri...

BACKGROUND In recent years, particularly in developed countries, women have tended to delay childbirth until over 40 years of age. Our study aims to identify whether the donor's age or recipient's age influences the pregnancy and live birth rate following oocyte recipient cycles. METHODS A population study included 3889 fresh oocyte recipient cycles. Pregnancy and live delivery rates were com...

OBJECTIVE To review the effect of elective single embryo transfer (eSET) compared with double embryo transfer (DET) following in vitro fertilization (IVF), and to provide guidelines on the use of eSET in order to optimize live birth rates and minimize twin pregnancies. OPTIONS Rates of live birth, clinical pregnancy, and multiple pregnancy following eSET and DET are compared. OUTCOMES Live ...

Evidence • Systematic review of RCTs of antiestrogens in PCOS1: -In 3 RCTs (N = 133) that examined clomiphene (50 to 250 mg/d, 1 to 5 cycles) versus placebo, the pregnancy rate was higher with clomiphene (20% vs 3%); the number needed to treat (NNT) was 6. Live births and miscarriages were not reported. -Limitations: small sample, variable dosing and number of cycles, high dropout rate, poor ad...

.. Objectives: The rationale of our study is to investigate whether aspirin alone, or aspirin combined with low molecular weight heparin as compared to placebo (intensive pregnancy surveillance), would improve the live birth rate (primary outcome) among with idiopathic recurrent miscarriages. Secondary outcomes included rate of serious adverse events during pregnancy among pharmacological inter...

OBJECTIVES To compare fertility rates after the three methods of managing early miscarriage in women recruited to the MIST (miscarriage treatment) randomised controlled trial. SETTING Early pregnancy clinics of acute hospitals in the south west region of England. PARTICIPANTS 1199 women who had had an early miscarriage (<13 weeks) confirmed by scan. INTERVENTION Expectant, medical, or sur...

background: supplementation of luteal phase with progesterone is prescribed for women undergoing routine ivf treatment. objective: the objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of three types of progesterone on biochemical, clinical and ongoing pregnancy rates and abortion and live birth rates. materials and methods: a prospective randomized study was performed at royan institute betw...