STUDY QUESTION: Does adding vaginal estradiol to standard progesterone luteal phase support improve ongoing pregnancy rates in normal-responder IVF/ICSI patients undergoing GnRH antagonist cycles? SUMMARY ANSWER: The addition of vaginal es…
Background: Even though endometriosis is an important risk factor for pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), it is still not clear whether endometriosis influences PID after ultrasound-guided transvaginal oocyte retrieval (TVOR). Therefore, thi…
Abstract Purpose To investigate whether the assisted reproductive technology (ART) outcome differed amongst women with primary and recurrent endometriomas and to identify prognostic factors for a poor cumulative live birth rate (cLBR) in …
A 44-year-old woman, gravida 3 para 1, presented to our hospital with a 20-year history of dysmenorrhea. Her surgical history revealed a cesarean section. Magnetic resonance imaging suggested a significantly enlarged uterus with cystic aden…
BACKGROUND: Recepteur d'origine nantais (RON) protein expression has been demonstrated to correlate with tumor progression, metastasis, and prognosis, and its mRNA expression increases in deeply infiltrating endometriotic lesions. However, …