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Reproductive Medicine

Newly identified biochemical markers improve assessment of endometrium

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 7th, 2003

A Yale University researcher who invented a test to determine whether a woman's endometrium (uterine lining) is healthy and ready for embryo implantation has identified two new biochemical markers that improve assessment of the endometrium.

The endometrial function test (EFT) was created by Harvey J. Kliman, MD, a research scientist in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine. An abnormal EFT is associated with pregnancy failure, while a normal EFT is associated with pregnancy success.

Kliman's study, published in the July 2003 issue of the journal Fertility and Sterility, identifies two...

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