Assisted reproductive treatment outcomes of women with endometriomas: Either with or without previous ovarian surgery.

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate and compare the assisted reproductive technique (ART) outcomes of women with endometriomas either with or without prior endometrioma surgery.

Materials And Methods: A total of 122 women with endometriomas underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer (ICSI-ET) at a tertiary IVF Center, between 2014 and 2019, were included in this retrospective study. Of this group, 38 patients had recurrent endometriomas and 84 patients had primary endometrioma without a previous endometrioma surgery.

Oxytocin and cabergoline alleviate ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) by suppressing vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in an experimental model.

Purpose: Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a life-threatening complication of ovarian stimulation in reproductive medicine. Here, we aimed to investigate the role of oxytocin (OT) and cabergoline in the prevention and alleviation of the OHSS in an animal model.

Methods: Thirty-five female immature Wistar rats were randomly assigned to five groups.

Live birth after frozen-thawed embryo transfer: which endometrial preparation protocol is better?

Objective: To compare the clinical outcomes of modified natural cycle (mNC) and artificial cycle (AC) protocols for frozen embryo transfers.

Material And Methods: A total of 490 frozen-thawed autologous embryo transfer cycles, performed in a single tertiary IVF center, between January 2015 and September 2017, were retrospectively analyzed. Of these, 214 cycles were performed after mNC and 276 cycles were performed after gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonist plus sequential estrogen and progestin priming protocol.

Expression of interleukin-8 and monocyte chemotactic protein 1 in women with endometriosis.

Objective: To investigate the expression and localization of interleukin-8 (IL-8) and monocyte chemotactic protein 1 (MCP-1) in women with and without endometriosis.

Design: Comparative immunohistochemical study.

Setting: Academic medical center.

Early and midluteal phase blood estradiol levels after ovum pickup and pregnancy rates after ICSI cycles.

Objective: To examine whether blood estradiol level tendencies during the late follicular and early luteal phases and the 11 days after embryo transfer have any association with the outcome of intracytoplasmic sperm injection-embryo transfer (ICSI-ET) cycles.

Study Design: This prospective study involved 38 assisted reproductive technology cycles in 35 infertile patients treated with assisted reproductive technologies in which blood samples taken on the 4th, 7th, 9th and 11th days following ET were tested for progesterone, estradiol and hCG levels using an enzyme-linked immunoassay. The estradiol blood levels were compared with the maximal follicular phase blood estradiol.

Comparison of the ICSI outcome of ejaculated sperm with normal, abnormal parameters and testicular sperm.

Objective(s): To compare fertilization rates, quality of embryos, pregnancy rates (PRs) and outcome of pregnancies in intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) using sperm from ejaculates of normal and abnormal semen and testicular sperm of non-obstructive azoospermia.

Study Design: Four hundred fifty-four patients who underwent 454 ICSI cycles were evaluated retrospectively. Patients were divided into three groups according to the quality and source of sperm.

Gluteal artery pseudoaneurysm, a rare cause of sciatic pain: case report and literature review.

This article describes a very unusual case of sciatic pain and motor dysfunction resulting from gluteal artery pseudoaneurysm. A 36-year-old woman with primary infertility sustained an iatrogenic injury to her left gluteal artery during transvaginal ultrasound-guided follicle aspiration. Twenty-five days after the procedure she developed severe left sciatic pain and motor dysfunction.