BACKGROUND In the last decade, numerous studies have demonstrated concern about the presence of hydrosalpinx and its management in patients undergoing IVF. We evaluated the current management of hydrosalpinx prior to IVF treatment in the UK. METHODS A total of 117 postal survey, anonymous, sealed questionnaires were sent to all IVF centres in the UK, to determine the policy for the management...

IVF success rates are low, with approximately one-third of all cycles resulting in live births1. Improving IVF success rates would make a significant difference in the lives of many women trying to conceive. Chromosome aneuploidy (abnormal number of chromosomes) is a major cause of IVF failure, miscarriage, and, in rare cases, abnormal pregnancy and live birth. Most aneuploidies arise during th...

Some existing laws and some proposed legislation regulating the practice of in vitro fertilization (IVF) limit its availability to infertile couples. Dawson and Singer question whether it is reasonable to so restrict access to IVF, and examine some of the medical and social circumstances in which IVF and the related procedures of embryo freezing, embryo biopsy, and embryo transfer might be use...

The novel introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into in vitro fertilization (IVF) technologies (AI(i)IVF) is, at the same time, medically promising and ethically disconcerting. new possibilities complexities generated by involving intelligent, powerful algorithms human creation reproduction, raise a host ethical issues for IVF patients, practitioners—embryologists, particular, society la...

BACKGROUND To know the underlying mechanisms of J waves, the response to atrial pacing was studied in patients with idiopathic ventricular fibrillation (IVF) and patients with non-IVF. METHODS AND RESULTS In 8 patients with IVF, the J-wave amplitude was measured before, during, and after atrial pacing. All patients had episodes of ventricular fibrillation without structural heart disease. The...

OBJECTIVE To review the results of opinion polls on community attitudes to in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and other aspects of assisted reproductive technology over a 20-year period. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Fourteen Australia-wide interview surveys that included questions relating to IVF were carried out between July 1981 and November 2001 as part of regular Morgan polls of community a...

To evaluate the association of the TP53 codon 72 (rs 1042522) alone or in combination with HDM2 SNP309 (rs 2279744) polymorphisms with human infertility and IVF outcome, we collected 1450 infertility women undergoing their first controlled ovarian stimulation for IVF treatment and 250 fertile controls in the case-control study. Frequencies, distribution, interaction of genes, and correlation wi...

Natural cycle IVF produced the world first successful live birth, but slowly this treatment has been replaced by ovarian stimulated cycle IVF, because it has been believed ovarian stimulated cycle IVF will increase the number of available embryos for transfer. Therefore, it directly increases the chance of pregnancy from the treatment cycle. However, ovarian stimulation is always associated wit...

The present study compares the evidence of pregnancy and delivery among in-vitro fertilization (IVF) parents (45 couples), other formerly infertile parents (35 couples) and fertile parents (35 couples). All deliveries concerned primaparous women and singleton births. In addition, the burden of fertility treatments was investigated. Results show that the psychological burden of the treatments ex...

OBJECTIVE To validate previously computed correction factors for free β-human chorionic gonadotrophin (fβ-hCG) and pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A (PAPP-A) in in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) pregnancies with hormone treatment and to determine the effect on false-positive rate (FPR). METHODS Retrospective study on 249 IVF and 250 ICSI cases and 20...