H W Jones

Transvaginal color Doppler sonography (TV-CDS) was performed on 64 women with adnexal masses at 3, 6 and 12 weeks after initial presentation. In 47 (72% of patients studied), the pelvic mass demonstrated a decrease in size and increase in p…

The current retrospective study was undertaken at a tertiary care academic reproductive medical center to evaluate the role of abdominal metroplasty (Jones or Strassman techniques) in patients with bicornuate uteri, T-shaped uteri and septa…

From January 1987 to December 1990, 1,415 patients were enrolled for in vitro fertilisation (IVF), series 26-41, at the Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine. They underwent 2,393 IVF cycles. The most common indications were tubal facto…

The purpose of this report is to present a 6-year experience in the management of endometriosis with in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF/ET). We divided 136 patients who underwent 280 cycles into three groups: (1) previous histo…

Twenty-nine patients 40 years of age or older were stimulated with gonadotropins, starting on day 3 of the cycle, in a total of 64 cycles (January 1983 to June 1985) for multiple follicular development for in vitro fertilization. Most patie…

Contemporary programs of in vitro fertilization (IVF) approach a pregnancy rate per cycle which is comparable to the pregnancy rate per month of exposure in normal reproduction. IVF has changed the approach to several pelvic conditions. Bec…

Thirty-nine cycles were studied in patients with a history of endometriosis who went through in vitro fertilization. In 15 cycles, there was no evidence of endometriosis; in 10 cycles, the patients had mild or moderate disease; in 14 cycles…

Pregnancy success was evaluated in 48 women following surgical correction of a vaginal obstruction due to imperforate hymen (N = 22) or to a complete transverse vaginal septum (N = 26). Pregnancy success was more likely to occur following s…

Twenty-five of 48 women (52%) sterilized by unipolar cautery techniques conceived following tubal anastomosis, of whom 17 (36%) had a living child. The overall cumulative probability of conception at the end of follow-up as determined by li…

A homogeneous group of 214 infertile women with endometriosis treated at the Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1960 to 1979 received conservative surgery as the sole therapeutic modality. Among this group, 115 patients (54%) conceived following s…

Since the rate of pregnancy is a function of time, conventional pregnancy rates (number of patients achieving pregnancy per number of patients treated) are inadequate for counseling unless the follow-up period is specified. To overcome this…

Sixty-four patients who had infertility associated only with endometriosis were treated with methyltestosterone, 5 mg/day, continuously for a period of 6 months. The patients continued to ovulate while receiving medication and 12 patients b…