Iranian journal of reproductive medicine

BACKGROUND: Acute appendicitis with appendicial endometriosis is a very infrequently encountered condition during pregnancy. Decidualization is the hypertrophy of endometrial stromal cells by the effect of progesterone. Similarly, in pregna…

BACKGROUND: Supplementation of luteal phase with progesterone is prescribed for women undergoing routine IVF treatment. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of three types of progesterone on biochemical, clini…

BACKGROUND: Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intrauterine insemination (IUI) cycle is an ideal protocol for some subfertile patients. So, we decided to try this therapeutic protocol for the patients with unilateral tubal blockage dia…

BACKGROUND: Recurrent spontaneous abortion impacts almost 1% of couples. The sera from women with unexplained recurrent spontaneous abortion (URSA) have toxic effects on embryos that grow in the uterus. Therefore, the abnormal condition of …

BACKGROUND: Pregnancy rate with IVF cycle is almost 22%. Many investigations perform to increase this rate in IVF. Various factors affect the result of IVF cycles. One of these factors could be uterine contractions that expel transferred em…

BACKGROUND: General concern is that the pregnancy rate is higher with GnRH-agonist as a protocol of pituitary suppression. GnRH-antagonist protocol provides a shorter period of administration and an easy flexible protocol. OBJECTIVE: In th…

BACKGROUND: Endometriosis is a common gynecological problem associated with chronic pelvic pain. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of current hormonal treatments of endometriosis associated pain. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Randomized C…

BACKGROUND: The prevalence and etiology of infertility are not similar in different parts of the world. There are only few reports of this topic in Iran. OBJECTIVE: This study was conducted to determine the clinical patterns and major caus…

BACKGROUND: Despite numerous developments in the field of assisted reproduction the implantation rate remains low .Recent studies suggested that local injury to endometrium in controlled ovarian hyper stimulation cycle improves implantation…

BACKGROUND: Human fertility has been declined all over the world. Advanced women's age is one of the most important factors in determining the success of reproduction and ageing has negative impact on ART outcome and advanced female age dec…

BACKGROUND: The selection of pre-embryos for transferred is based on morphological appearance. But some poor quality cleaved embryos also can be cultured to the blastocyst stage and implanted. OBJECTIVE: To assess the clinical pregnancy ou…

BACKGROUND: Infertility is a major psychosocial crisis as well as being a medical problem. The factors that predict psychosocial consequences of infertility may vary in different gender and different infertile populations. OBJECTIVE: The p…

BACKGROUND: Celiac sprue (gluten sensitive enteropathy) is an autoimmune disease which is hereditary and its pathology mainly bases on immunologic intolerance to gluten. It has a vast variety of signs and symptoms and its clinical features …