Publications by authors named "Carl Wood"
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 attitudes on various topics. Each survey involved about 1000 respondents drawn from randomly selected "cluster points" in urban and rural locations.
Study Objective: To assess the outcome of aggressive but conservative laparoscopic surgery in the treatment of severe endometriosis involving the rectum.
Design: Retrospective study (Canadian Task Force classification III).
Setting: Endosurgery unit of a tertiary referral center.
The pregnancy rate and implantation rate following blastocyst transfer in the human have been reported to be high; however, it has remained necessary to transfer 2-3 blastocysts to achieve these rates. Morphological criteria are currently used to select blastocysts for transfer and have some limited correlation with ongoing viability. Glucose metabolism of 189 human morula to blastocyst stage embryos was analysed using a non-invasive ultramicrofluorescence technique to determine if this could be used to predict viability.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To consider and explain the possibility of difficulties in diagnosis of endometriosis at previous laparoscopy
Design: Retrospective patient record review.
Setting: The Endometriosis Care Centre of Australia and the private practices of authors.
Sample: Two hundred and fifteen patients with clinical evidence of endometriosis examined laparoscopically between March 1999 and May 2001.