Publications by authors named "Rudolph K Adageba"
Research Question: What were the utilization, effectiveness and safety of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Africa during 2020?
Design: Cross-sectional, cycle-based and retrospective summary data were collected from voluntarily participating ART centres.
Results: During 2020, 37,063 ART procedures were reported by 67 centres in 15 countries. Autologous fresh transfers were predominant at 65.
Research Question: What were the utilization, practices and outcomes of assisted reproductive technology (ART) in Africa in 2018 and 2019?
Design: Cycle-based data (CBD) and retrospective summary data were collected cross-sectionally from voluntarily participating ART centres.
Results: During 2018, 43,958 ART procedures were reported by 67 centres in 16 countries, increasing to 45,185 procedures reported by 70 centres in 18 countries in 2019. Autologous fresh procedures predominated at 70%, whereas autologous frozen embryo transfers (FET) increased from 21.
Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate treatment outcomes and assess predictors of clinical pregnancy in obstructive azoospermia cases treated with testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in Ghana.
Methods: This study was a retrospective study conducted on 67 men seeking treatment for obstructive azoospermia at two study sites in Ghana from January 2018 to December 2019. First, archived data were reviewed and treatment outcomes of cases of obstructive azoospermia from the hospital records were evaluated.