Female Infertility

Research in the area of female infertility reported from P.N.B. Soldevila and colleagues

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 23rd, 2007

"Ovarian reserve is a crucial factor for normal ovarian response and the achievement of pregnancy after in vitro fertilization (IVF). Recently, the study of morphological markers by means of ultrasonographic counting of antral follicles (AFC) has proved useful," investigators in Barcelona, Spain report.

"The present prospective study included 327 consecutive IVF patients who had a basal ultrasound scan of their ovarian reserve during the early follicular phase and had a first IVF cycle between I and 3 months later. We performed 313 ovum pick-ups with a mean of 11.1 +/- 7.9 oocytes retrieved. The pregnancy rate per aspiration was 34.5%. Clear and significant differences...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2007-08-23)

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