This study used data of in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles from 3,221 patients during 2004 to 2013, collected in Leuven University Fertility Center, aiming to identify patient and cycle characteristics to predict pregnancy and live birth rate. Variables include age, gonadotrophin dose, year of the IVF cycle, implantation problems, transport problems, ovulation problems, male pathology, pituita...

BACKGROUND The pregnancy outcome of the unicornuate uterus is associated with an increased risk of miscarriage, cervical incompetence, and a number of obstetric complications. However, at present, there is no accepted treatment method for women with unicornuate uterus, other than expectant measures. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reproductive outcome of transcervical uterine incision...

background: unovulation is the most common cause of infertility. the first line oral treatment has been clomiphene citrate. another anti-estrogen used for ovulation induction is tamoxifen. many unovulatory infertile women are resistance to anti-estrogens and need another treatment. alternative treatments are aromatas inhibitors. objective: this study was designed to compare the effectiveness of...

Higher proportion of women experiencing pregnancy wastage in any defined area is considered as a sensitive indicator of maternal health care services. It is a significant public health problem throughout the world especially in the developing countries. Pregnancy wastage mainly includes early pregnancy losses (abortions) and stillbirths. Actual incidence of abortions is not known. It is estimat...

  Purpose: To assess whether bromocriptine-rebound method (BRM) can improve pregnancy   outcomes compared to long protocol after intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles (ICSIs).   Materials and Methods: A total of 114 women underwent ICSI. Pregnancy outcomes and   hormonal data were compared between two groups, i.e. long protocol and BRM. Ovulatory   women with normal serum prolactin levels wer...

BACKGROUND We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of existing literature to evaluate the different outcomes of low-dose aspirin on patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), including clinical pregnancy rate, implantation rate, live birth rate, miscarriage rate, fertilization rate, number of oocytes retrieved, and so forth. METHODS El...

OBJECTIVES We aimed to use simple clinical questions to group women and provide their specific rates of miscarriage, preterm delivery, and stillbirth for reference. Further, our purpose was to describe who has experienced particularly low or high rates of each event. METHODS Data were collected as part of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, a national prospective cohort. Repr...

BACKGROUND Using aspirin, heparin, or both in women with unexplained recurrent miscarriage could be useful, because this problem might be initiated by thrombosis in decidual vessels. OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between thrombophilia and unexplained recurrent miscarriage and to evaluate the efficacy of anticoagulant treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this quasi experimental, we...

STUDY QUESTION Does atosiban (oxytocin/vasopressin V1A receptor antagonist), given around embryo transfer improve the live birth rate of women undergoing IVF treatment? SUMMARY ANSWER The use of atosiban around embryo transfer did not improve the live birth rate in a general population of IVF patients. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Uterine contractions in IVF cycles were significantly increased fol...