STUDY QUESTION How long is the individualized training and the stability of competence for the embryo transfer (ET) technique? SUMMARY ANSWER The embryo transfer technique is easy-to-learn, hardly unlearned, and training should be individualized by monitoring with learning curve-cumulative summation (LC-CUSUM) curves. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY Like many medical procedures, embryo transfer is an...

the success of oocyte donation is influenced by multiple factors. we performed a retrospective analysis to evaluate prognostic factors in oocyte donation cycles. the main outcome measurements including recipient age, donor age, estradiol level in midcycle, the day of transfer and number of transferred embryos were not different in pregnant and non pregnant groups. endometrial pattern but not en...

Background: The role of embryo transfer (ET) in the success of in vitro fertilization/intra cytoplasmic sperm injection treatment is not well understood. In the present study we classified ET technique as difficult and easy types according to certain strict criteria, and compared the pregnancy outcome of the two ET types. Methods: This study was performed retrospectively on 295 infertile patien...

background: to compare the pregnancy outcomes after two embryos versus three embryos transfers (ets) in women undergoing in vitro fertilization (ivf)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (icsi) cycles. materials and methods: this retrospective study was performed on three hundred eighty seven women with primary infertility and with at least one fresh embryo in good quality in order to transfer at e...

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...

the society for assisted reproductive technology (sart) method of embryo grading is unique, simple, and widely practiced, and its use has been mandatory for sart membership programs since 2010. developed by sart in 2006, the current embryo grading system categories, “good, fair, and poor,” are limited because they do not describe the best 1-2 embryos in the interest of keeping pace with the shi...