Objective: To assess the effect of GnRHa as luteal phase support in women undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation and IUI. Design: A prospective, randomized trial. Setting: Cytogenetic and Endoscopy Unit, Zagazig University Hospital. Methods: Two hundred fourteen women either with unexplained or mild male factor infertility was planned to contribute to this study. After exclusion 18 women, 19...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of luteal phase support with vaginal progesterone on pregnancy rates in the intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycles, stimulated with clomiphene citrate and human menopausal gonadotropin (hMG), in sub fertile couples. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective, randomized, double blind study was performed in a tertiary infertility center from March 2011 to January 2...

Background: Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) has been suggested as a marker of ovarian reserve and predictor of ovarian response to controlled ovarian hyper stimulation. The aim of this study is to determine the role of AMH in prediction of success ART cycles in patients with normal FSH serum levels. Materials and Methods: This prospective cohort study included 80 infertile women under 4o years, wh...

BACKGROUND Given the controversies regarding the effectiveness of gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonists in prevention of ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome stimulation, this study was designed to compare GnRH agonist protocol with GnRH antagonist protocol in patients who were candidate for assisted reproductive techniques (ARTs). MATERIALS AND METHODS This investigation was perfor...

Background The effect of hysteroscopic polpectomy for endometrial polyps during treatment cycles is still debated and further studies are necessary to evaluate beneficial effect of this procedure. MaterialsAndMethods This matched case-control study compared retrospectively 86 women with and without hysteroscopic polypectomy who underwent in vitro fertilization and / or Intracytoplasmic sperm in...

The goal of ovarian Stimulation for assisted reproductive technologies (ART) is obtaining multifollicular growth ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome (OHSS) is one of the most Severe and also potentially Life-threatening complications, which happens in 1-10% of IVF cycles. The most common risk factors which are related to OHSS are polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS), younger age, high preovulatory...

BACKGROUND To evaluate basal testosterone (T) levels during follicular phase of the menstrual cycle as a predictor for ovarian response and in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcome. METHOD We analyzed data retrospectively from hospital-based IVF center including one thousand two hundred and sixty Chinese Han women under their first IVF cycle reached the ovum pick-up stage, without polycystic ovar...

background: one the main aspects of an in vitro fertilization (ivf) cycle is to avoid any possible systemic damage to women undergoing to a controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (coh). the aim of this work is to evaluate renal and hepatic function blood tests in patients undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation during ivf cycles. materials and methods: all patients received a long stimulati...

we examined the demographic characteristics of couples, ovarian response and sperm quality to determine the predictors of clinical fertilization in ivf cycles. a descriptive and analytic study was conducted using data and biologic specimens obtained fatemeh-alzahra of babol infertility center from 2004 to 2005. only data from 315 women who had medical indication for conventional ivf treatment w...

BACKGROUND Ovarian stimulation for IVF profoundly alters the early luteal phase endometrial development. It has been hypothesized that this process has already started in the late follicular phase, as the endometrium has already been exposed to high steroid concentrations since that phase. The aim of the present study was to prospectively investigate the effect of multi-follicular ovarian stimu...