BACKGROUND: Adenomyosis is a major cause of chronic pelvic pain in women of reproductive age and significantly affects quality of life. Identifying biomarkers associated with pain mechanisms may improve understanding of disease pathophysiol…
Vitamin D and calcium in follicular fluid play an important role in modulating steroidogenesis, folliculogenesis, and oocyte quality determination. Both collaborate to produce top-quality embryos (TQE) during in vitro fertilization (IVF). I…
OBJECTIVE: Previous studies have shown that the meiotic spindle is not always aligned with the first polar body (PB) in metaphase II human oocytes. Polarized Light Microscopy (PLM) has been used to observe and locate the meiotic spindle to …
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of dual trigger, which is a combination of gonadotropinreleasing agonist (GnRH-a) and recombinant human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) in the final oocyte maturation, in…
Endometriosis is a benign gynecological disease that is often found among women in reproductive age with 10% of incidence. There are many theories regarding development of endometriosis, and to date the etiopathogenesis of this disease is s…
BACKGROUND: Studies have been conducted to improve the pregnancy rate through the in vitro fertilization (IVF) and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) program. In recent years, researchers have been focusing on finding impact of high pr…
OBJECTIVE: To compare the outcomes of embryo development between oval-shaped oocyte as an abnormal morphology oocyte and a normal morphology oocyte in In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). METHODS: This study was a comparative analytical study wit…