background: there is increasing evidence that psychological factors like anxiety and depression can affect ivf/icsi treatment results. objective: this study aimed to clarify the role of women’s anxiety and depression on the outcome of art cycles using intra cytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi). materials and methods: this was a prospective pilot study. one hundred six (106) consecutive women unde...

background: conventional ivf and icsi are two common techniques to achieve fertilization. ivf has long been used for treatment of infertility, although it is not an effective treatment in severe male infertility. the use of icsi has been expanded in severe male factor and fertilization failure after ivf cycle. in spite of the widespread use of icsi in patients with non-male factor infertility, ...

background: routine use of assisted hatching (ah) following icsi is a controversial issue in the literature. there are rare studies regarding the effect of laser assisted hatching (lah) on live birth rate. objective: our main goal was to evaluate the effect of lah on delivery rate as well as congenital anomaly in patients undergoing their first icsi cycle. materials and methods: a total of 182 ...

objective: in order to evaluate the endometrium by ultrasound in patients undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (coh) with clomiphene citrate (cc) and human menopausal gonadotropin (hmg) with intrauterine insemination (iui) to determine the relationship between endometrial pattern and thickness on pregnancy rate (pr). methods: in this prospective study, 108 infertile couples underwent ...

the pregnancy results of 17337 inseminations carried out in a dairy herd near cairo over a period of 12 years were retrospectively analyzed in relation to environmental temperature and temperature-humidity index (thi). the overall average of pregnancy rates to all inseminations was significantly (p

background: recently, motile sperm organelle morphology examination (msome) criteria as a new real time tool for evaluation of spermatozoa in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) cycles has been considered. objective: the aim was to investigate the predictive value of msome in in vitro fertilization (ivf) in comparison to icsi cycles and evaluation of the association between msome parameters...

background: many studies have been carried out to understand the effect of endometrial thickness on the reproductive outcome while the factors affecting the pattern itself are still unknown. objective: to determine the factors such as age and the number of follicles that could affect the endometrial thickness materials and methods: this study was conducted as a retrospective study on 680 infert...

background: implantation is considered as the rate-limiting step in success of assisted reproduction techniques, and intrauterine insemination cycles. it might be affected by ovarian superovulation and endometrial local scratching. objective: this study aims to investigate the effect of local endometrial injury on the outcome of iui cycles. materials and methods: in this randomized clinical tri...

Background: Controlled ovarian stimulation (COS) has been shown to advance endometrial maturation and affect adversely implantation in assisted reproduction technology (ART) cycles. It has been reported that there is a better embryo-endometrium synchrony in frozenthawed embryo transfer (FET) cycles than fresh embryo transfer (ET) cycles. The Background of this study was to compare ongoing pregn...