OBJECTIVE To compare pregnancy rate after controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination (COH-IUI) with no treatment in patients with endometriosis-associated infertility treated with laparoscopy. DESIGN A clinical cohort study. SETTING University-level tertiary care center. PATIENTS 238 women with various stages of endometriosis after laparoscopic treatment. INTERVEN...

Background: The aim of our study was to compare the resulting from transfer of embryos that cryopereserved in cleavage stage after thawing and transfer of embryos after thawing and culture in sequentional media until blastocyst formation. Materials and Methods: In this prospective clinical study, we have evaluated 128 cycles in women undergone in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sp...

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...

Few data on the long-term efficacy of intrauterine devices (IUD) are available, and this article reports on the final 12-year experience with the TCu22OC and TCu380A devices from two randomized, multicenter trials conducted in 24 centers. A total of 3,277 and 1,396 women, respectively, were recruited for use of each device between 1981 and 1986 and followed at 3. 6, and 12 months after insertio...

background: laparoscopic ovarian drilling (lod) is an alternative method to induce ovulation in polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) patients with clomiphene citrate (cc) resistant instead of gonadotropins. this study aimed to compare the efficacy of unilateral lod (ulod) versus bilateral lod (blod) in cc resistance pcos patients in terms of ovulation and pregnancy rates. materials and methods: in ...

Background Child and maternal mortality and morbidity remain among the top global health challenges despite various efforts and multitude of resources directed to improving this situation over time. This study assessed trend of the timings of first antenatal care (ANC) visit in Nigeria and also identified the risk factors associated with it. Methods The data obtained from three consecutive Ni...

BACKGROUND Although pregnancy rate in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) cycles has been increased over the preceding years, but the majority of IVF-ET cycles still fail. Granulocyte colony stimulating factor (GCSF) is a glycoprotein that stimulates cytokine growth factor and induces immune system which may improve pregnancy rate in women with history of implantation failure. OBJ...

background: we sought to determine the association between factors that affected clinical pregnancy and live birth rates in patients who underwent in vitro fertilization (ivf) and received intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) and/or laser assisted hatching (lah), or neither. materials and methods: in this retrospective cohort study, the records of women who underwent ivf with or without icsi...

A randomized clinical trial (RCT) noted that sonographic examination in the third trimester, in conjunction with delivery at term for abnormalities of fetal growth, significantly decreased the likelihood of small-for-gestational-age (SGA) neonates in uncomplicated pregnancies. We identified 15 characteristics of screening tests and attempted to determine if there is evidence to routinely obtain...

Clinical studies have been reported over the last 5 years showing that copper improves the performance of intrauterine devices. Reports by Zipper, Medal, and Prager, 1 and Tatum and Zipper2 have substantiated a positive correlation between the surface area of copper applied to an IUD and its effectiveness both in lower mammals1 and in humans.2 The application of copper to Loop A3• 4 also has be...