AbstractObjective We aimed to investigate live birth rate (LBR), cumulative (CLBR) for consecutive fresh and frozen-thawed in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles, CLBR after an entire IVF programme involving multiple ovarian stimulations using blastocyst transfer only. Study design From January 1 st 2014 December 31 2018, we included women aged 18–45 years who initiated ...

Nearly 75% of in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments do not result in live births and patients are largely guided by a generalized age-based prognostic stratification. We sought to provide personalized and validated prognosis by using available clinical and embryo data from prior, failed treatments to predict live birth probabilities in the subsequent treatment. We generated a boosted tree mod...

background and aims: air pollution is one of the health problems worldwide. previous epidemiological studies have investigated the impacts of air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. the aim of this study was to determine the associations between air pollution levels and different health indicators among world countries. methods: this ecological study was performed in 2013 by u...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to gain more insight into long-term psychological adjustment to IVF in women. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, 298 women entering their first IVF treatment cycle (including ICSI) completed standardized psychological questionnaires before the start of the treatment, just after the last treatment cycle, and 6 months and 3-5 years after the last treatme...

OBJECTIVES We evaluated outcomes in couples treated for infertility with natural procreative technology (NaProTechnology [corrected] NPT), a systematic medical approach for optimizing physiologic conditions for conception in vivo, from an Irish general practice. METHODS All couples receiving treatment from 2 NPT-trained family physicians between February 1998 and January 2002 were studied. Th...

Purpose: To compare the strategy for mild stimulation IVF versus conventional stimulation IVF. Methods: A decision tree analytic model was created to compare IVF with mild stimulation versus convention stimulation in infertile women <38 years of age to evaluate which strategy is the least costly per live birth. Results: Using base-case estimates of costs and probabilities in women <38 years old...

OBJECTIVE To compare cumulative live birth rate according to the rate of use of metaphase II (MII) oocytes in conventional ovarian stimulation protocols for in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. METHODS In a cohort study, patients aged 18-38 years undergoing their first IVF treatment at one US center were enrolled between February 1, 2009, and August 31, 2013. Ovar...

AIMS To describe trends in total and live birth prevalence, regional differences in prevalence, and outcome of pregnancy of selected congenital anomalies. METHODS Population based registry study of 839,521 births to mothers resident in five geographical areas of Britain during 1991-99. Main outcome measures were: total and live birth prevalence; pregnancy outcome; proportion of stillbirths du...