Yeon Hee Hong

Endometriosis, a prevalent but debilitating condition affecting women, poses significant challenges in diagnosis and management. The current 2024 guideline, developed by the Korean Society of Endometriosis (KSE), builds upon the 2018 KSE gu…

This article reports the live birth of a healthy newborn using vitrified-warmed oocytes from fertility preservation before ovarian surgery. The patient in our case underwent two cycles of controlled ovarian stimulation before laparoscopic b…

Background: Reduced-port robotic myomectomy (RPRM) using Da Vinci® Xi™ is a good fertility-saving surgical option, but the surgical and fertility outcomes are unknown. Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study evaluating the feasibilit…

Background and Aims: Endometriosis is known to have detrimental effects on fertility, but there is no consensus on the optimal stimulation protocol for IVF-ET in patients with endometriosis. The study aimed to compare the IVF outcomes of go…

Background and Aims: Laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy has been the mainstay of surgical methods for endometriosis. Recently, robot-assisted ovarian cystectomy using Da Vinci Ⓡ Xi ™ surgical system has been successfully introduced into clinic…

PurposeThe present study aimed to identify microorganisms in follicular fluids and to investigate their association with in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes.Materials and methodsThis study was conducted as a prospective study of 49 infert…

ObjectiveOocyte (OC), embryo (EC), and ovarian tissue cryopreservation (OTC) are options for fertility preservation (FP) before going through gonadotoxic cancer treatment, or anticipated fertility decline in benign ovarian diseases, or for …

Endometrioma is known to reduce the ovarian reserve and the extent of the decrease is more severe when ovarian surgery is performed. Therefore, to prevent this decline in fertility, patients with endometrioma are considered candidates for p…

ObjectiveWe attempted to identify the optimal cutoff numbers of mature oocytes that would produce at least one or multiple top-quality (grade A) day-3 embryos in normal responders undergoing stimulated in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles.Me…

AIM: To evaluate various adverse symptoms during short-term use of ulipristal acetate in women with uterine myomas (n = 90), adenomyosis (n = 3) or both (n = 7). METHODS: One hundred premenopausal women who received ulipristal acetate for 4…

ObjectiveTo investigate prevalence of antiphospholipid antibody (APA) in Korean infertile women undergoing the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment and to evaluate the influence of APA on the subsequent IVF outcomes.MethodTwo hundre…