Journal of obstetrics and gynaecology of India

BACKGROUND: Infertility is one of the major causes of socioeconomic stress worldwide due to social stigma and stressful lifestyles. Despite technological advances, couples still undergo several IVF cycles for conceiving without knowing thei…

BACKGROUND: Tibolone is an alternative to conventional estrogen and progesterone in relieving post-menopausal symptoms in Indian women. MATERIAL AND METHODS: A prospective short-term observational study was done at a tertiary care teaching…

BACKGROUND: Uterine fibroids are the most common benign smooth muscle tumors of the uterus. However, there is no consensus on whether myomectomy improves IVF success in women with non-cavity-distorting intramural fibroids. The aim of this s…

PURPOSE: To evaluate whether elective single embryo transfer in patients with suboptimal response to ovarian stimulation is detrimental to pregnancy rates compared to double embryo transfer. METHODS: A case-control retrospective study was …

INTRODUCTION: Endometriosis is the condition in which there are ectopic endometrial tissues outside the uterine cavity. The use of nerve sparing technique has been well established in the field of oncology, leading to better quality of life…

CONTEXT: Infertile women undergoing frozen embryo transfer (FET) cycles may not show optimal endometrial growth with estrogens alone. AIM: To evaluate clinical effect of mild stimulation with letrozole and estrogens on endometrial growth i…

CONTEXT: Thin endometrium during the frozen embryo transfer cycles leads to cycle cancellation. The embryo transfer cycle getting deferred is an unpleasant experience for the patients and the fertility specialist. AIMS: The purpose of this…

INTRODUCTION: LNG-IUD although used extensively for its non-contraceptive indications like abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), dysmenorrhoea and fibroid uterus, one of the major drawbacks is the high expulsion rates, especially among adenomyot…

AIM: To evaluate the oocyte retrieval rate and blastocyst formation rate with DuoStim protocol in patients belonging to POSEIDON groups 3 and 4. METHODS: This observational, retrospective, single-center study including 90 patients belongin…

The decision regarding oophorectomy during gynecological surgeries, especially in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women, has historically posed a significant dilemma. Traditionally, it was widely believed that conserving the ovaries held …

Scar endometriosis is increasingly being reported with the increase in surgeries particularly cesarean sections. Episiotomy scars, resulting from surgical incisions made during childbirth, are uncommon sites for endometriosis. This case rep…

AIM: To investigate the outcomes of peripartum hysterectomies (PHs) conducted to prevent maternal morbidity and mortality at a tertiary care hospital with 15,000 deliveries per year. METHOD: Patients who underwent PHs during delivery and/o…

BACKGROUND: Cesarean scar defects or isthmoceles are increasingly detected in the recent times due to the rise in cesarean rates worldwide. They may develop due to poor healing at myometrial site. The pouch accumulates the menstrual blood a…

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this research was to assess the role of robotics and its outcome in gynaecology both in benign and malignant cases in a single centre and provide a critical evaluation of possible advantages of robot assisted surgeries…

OBJECTIVES: (1) To evaluate the use of hysteroscopy in the assessment of uterine pathologies, not evident on ultrasonography or hystero-salpingography in women with previous one or more IVF failures and (2) to determine whether correction o…

The regulatory vacuum in the field of ART in India was filled when in December 2021, the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 (ART Act) (https://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/2021/232025.pdf) and the Surrogacy (Regulation…

INTRODUCTION: Struma ovarii is a rare ovarian teratoma characterised by the unusual presence of thyroid tissue. Even though usually benign, malignant transformation is sometimes detected. We report such a case of malignant struma ovarii in …

OBJECTIVES: To compare the pregnancy rates of two methods of intrauterine insemination (IUI), i.e. standard IUI (sIUI) and fallopian tube sperm perfusion (FSP). METHODS: This prospective randomised parallel study design included 160 infert…