Accelerated decline in pregnancy rate after fertilization and embryo transfer in 35-41-year-old women: 15 years' experience in the Okinawa Islands, Japan.

To describe 15 years of fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET) treatment at University Hospital, with special reference to a potential association between pregnancy rate and patient age. A retrospective analysis of 2355 IVF-ET cycles carried out in 789 patients was undertaken. The main outcome measures were ovarian response, fertilization rate and pregnancy rate.

Bacterial endotoxin in the endometrium and its clinical significance in reproduction.

Bacterial endotoxin was detected in menstrual effluent from infertile women. Endometrial endotoxin appears to influence reproductive process because the pregnancy rate after IVF-ET was significantly associated with an endotoxin level.

Impact of detection of bacterial endotoxin in menstrual effluent on the pregnancy rate in in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer.

Objective: To examine whether bacterial endotoxin is detectable in menstrual effluent and to analyze a possible association between endotoxin levels and a pregnancy rate after IVF-ET.

Design: Prospective observational study.

Setting: University hospital.

High dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy for carcinoma in situ of the vagina occurring after hysterectomy: a rational prescription of radiation dose.

Objective: Our purpose was to profile patients who were treated with high dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy for carcinoma in situ of the vagina that occurred after hysterectomy, with special reference to a rational prescription of radiation dose.

Study Design: We reviewed 13 patients who were treated for posthysterectomy carcinoma in situ of the vagina by the brachytherapy as the sole treatment. The brachytherapy was delivered by a remote-controlled afterloading intracavitary radiation system.