OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of complications in the use of assisted reproductive technology in the management of infertile couples. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING The Egyptian IVF & ET Center, Maadi, Cairo, Egypt. PATIENT(S) Two thousand nine hundred twenty-four patients underwent IVF-ET or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in 3,500 cycles. INTERVENTION(S) IVF-ET, ...

STUDY QUESTION How do live birth rates compare after intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for men with obstructive azoospermia when using sperm derived from testicular sperm extraction (TESE) versus microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration (MESA)? SUMMARY ANSWER Our study suggests that proximal epididymal sperm (from MESA) result in higher live birth rates as compared with testicular sper...

background: repeated in vitro fertilization (ivf) failure together with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (ohss) is one of the distressing situations leading couples to search for alternative treatment options. for such patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) who have experienced ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, mild ovarian stimulation with in vitro oocyte maturation could be a prom...

effect of cervical mucus aspiration with insulin syringe on pregnancy rate in art cycles     a. aflatoonian md1*, m. asgharnia md 2, n.tabibnejad gp3     1- associated professor, dept. of gynecology, university of medical sciences and research and clinical center of infertility, yazd, iran   2- assistant professor, dept. of gynecology, guilan university of medical sciences, rasht, iran   3- gen...

Advances of the last two decadesin the treatment of azoospermic men enabled recovery of testicular spermatozoa and fertilization of the oocytes with ICSI. Since the introduction of the retrieval of testicular sperm by tissue extraction [1,2], ICSI with testicular sperm has become a routine procedure initially for patients with obstructive azoospermia (OA) [1,2], and later for non-obstructive az...

BACKGROUND Ultrasound guided transvaginal aspiration of oocytes has replaced other methods of oocyte retrieval for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). However, there is controversy over whether flushing yields a larger number of oocytes and a higher potential for pregnancy than aspiration only. OBJECTIVES To determine whether follicular aspiration and flu...