Can anti-ovarian antibody testing be useful in an IVF-ET clinic?

Objective: To establish importance of anti-ovarian antibodies (AOA) testing in infertile women.

Design: A clinical reproductive outcome comparative study between two groups of women undergoing IVF-ET. Group 1 consists of women tested positive for AOA, put on corticosteroid therapy, reverted to AOA negative and then taken up for IVF-ET.

A case-control study identifying chromosomal polymorphic variations as forms of epigenetic alterations associated with the infertility phenotype.

Objective: To study the association of chromosomal polymorphic variations with infertility and subfertility.

Design: A comparative case-controlled association study using cytogenetic techniques to compare the frequency of chromosomal variations in infertile individuals versus fertile controls.

Setting: Department of Infertility Management and Assisted Reproduction, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai, India.

Cumulus coculture and cumulus-aided embryo transfer increases pregnancy rates in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of the use of cumulus-aided embryo transfer on pregnancy rates. To study the proximity of expanded cumulus cells to the developing embryo. To document by light microscopy the anchoring of day 3 to day 4 embryos by the expanded cumulus cells.