A Comparison of Success Rates of Embryo Transfer on Weekdays and Weekends.

Background: The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the embryo transfer (ET) day on clinical pregnancy success rates in in vitro fertilization-ET (IVF-ET) cycles.

Materials And Methods: In this retrospective study, we divided patients with infertility who underwent IVF-ET with fresh embryos into two groups depending on whether the ET was performed on weekdays or weekends. The main outcome measure was to compare the clinical pregnancy rates of patients with similar demographic and clinical characteristics who underwent ET on weekdays or weekends.

Comparison of Subcuticular Suture Materials in Cesarean Skin Closure.

Aim. Comparison of the rate of wound complications, pain, and patient satisfaction based on used subcuticular suture material. Methods.

Immunohistochemical detection of transforming growth factor-alpha, epidermal growth factor, and vascular endothelial growth factor expression in hyperstimulated rat ovary.

Objective: The aim of the present study is to figure out the immunohistochemical expression of transforming growth factor-alpha (TGF-alpha), epidermal growth factor (EGF), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in hyperstimulated rat ovaries.

Methods: Twenty Wistar-Albino adult female rats (250-300 g) were taken into the study. The animals were randomly divided into two groups, each containing 10 rats: (i) stimulation group and (ii) control group.

Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme-inhibiting therapy on the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor in hyperstimulated rat ovary.

Objective: To determine the effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme-inhibiting therapy on the expression of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in the hyperstimulated rat ovary.

Design: Experimental study.

Setting: University animal research laboratory.

Endometrial thickness and the Doppler sonographic parameters of the uterine arteries as discriminators of endometrial status in postmenopausal women receiving anti-hypertensive treatment.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to establish the Doppler sonographic parameters of the uterine arteries in postmenopausal patients with or without hypertension and to determine the value of their measurement in the prediction of endometrial pathology.

Methods: Healthy postmenopausal women (n = 23) and the ones receiving anti-hypertensive medication (n = 34) examined for both endometrial thickness and Doppler velocimetry of the uterine arteries by transvaginal sonography.

Results: There was no significant difference between endometrial thickness and uterine artery Doppler sonographic parameters in hypertensive postmenopausal women compared to normotensive controls.

Fetal intra-abdominal umbilical vein dilatation associated with notching in umbilical artery.

Introduction: Dilatation of the fetal intra-abdominal umbilical vein is a rare entity. It is unclear whether prenatally diagnosed umbilical vein dilatation is associated with an increased risk of fetal anomalies or poor perinatal outcome. Umbilical artery waveform notching may be a predictor of cord abnormalities.

Premature luteinization defined as progesterone estradiol ratio >1 on hCG administration day seems to adversely affect clinical outcome in long gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist cycles.

Aim: To examine the effect of premature luteinization on the outcomes in long gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist cycles.

Methods: Two-hundred and forty-eight patients who had undergone assisted reproductive technology for infertility treatment between 2001 and 2002 were enrolled into the study. The patients were separated into two groups according to P/E2 ratios on human chorionic gonadotropin administration day.

Different anesthesiologic strategies have no effect on neonatal jaundice.

Objective: In this prospective study, we examined the influence of either segmental epidural anesthesia with bupivocaine hydrochloride or general anesthesia with sevoflurane on serum bilirubin levels and jaundice in neonates born with caesarean section.

Materials And Methods: The patients at 38-40 weeks were included into this prospective study. General anesthesia group (sevoflurane); Group A, (n=66) and segmental epidural anesthesia group (bupivocaine hydrochloride); Group B, (n=76) underwent caesarean section under elective circumstances.

The outcomes of assisted reproductive technology cycles in patients with one or two ovaries.

Aim: To provide a comparison between the follicular response to ovulation induction, and the pregnancy rate of women with a single or two ovaries, undergoing assisted reproductive technology.

Methods: To evaluate the outcome of assisted reproductive technology, 46 treatment cycles in women with one ovary were compared to 123 cycles in women with two ovaries.

Results: The mean age of the patients in the two groups were not similar (34.

Effect of ovarian cysts detected on the beginning day of ovulation induction to the success rates in ART cycles.

Aim: In the present study, we examined the outcome of assisted reproductive technology cycles in patients with or without baseline ovarian cysts following gonadotrophin-releasing hormone analogs administration.

Materials And Methods: Three-hundred and fifty-six patients who had undergone assisted reproductive technology treatment were enrolled in the study. The patients, all of who had undergone cyst aspiration prior to ovarian stimulation, were grouped into two groups according to the absence or presence of ovarian cysts.

Intraovarian stromal artery Doppler indices in predicting ovarian response.

Objective: To determine the value of ovarian stromal artery Doppler indices in the prediction of ovarian response in in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-ET) cycles.

Study Design: Forty-five cases were involved in the study. Following controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and detection of at least three follicles > 17 mm in diameter by transvaginal sonography in both ovaries, human chorionic gonadotropin was administered and follicle aspiration performed at the 34th-36th hour.