OBJECTIVE: To evaluate clinicians' beliefs concerning the effectiveness of lipiodol flushing as a treatment for unexplained infertility, and to integrate these prior beliefs with evidence from randomised trials. DESIGN: Survey. SETTING: S…
The present paper reports a single department's retrospective case series of all clomiphene citrate (CC) combined with intrauterine insemination (IUI) treatment cycles for ovulatory infertility performed during 2002. Thirty-eight couples wi…
Results of a personal audit of the long-term success of endometrial resection are used for comparison with other published data to demonstrate the importance of personal audit.
BACKGROUND: There is no published data assessing whether higher mid luteal serum progesterone (P4) levels are associated with a higher cycle pregnancy rate (CPR) in controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) with intrauterine insemination (I…
Currently, there is enormous interest in stem cells as a new treatment modality for regenerative medicine, commencing when human embryonic stem (hES) cells were first cultured from spare in vitro fertilisation-derived embryos. Emerging evid…
BACKGROUND: Controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) with clomiphene citrate (CC) combined with intrauterine insemination (IUI) is often used as treatment for ovulatory infertility which includes unexplained, male, cervical, endometriosis,…
OBJECTIVE: To determine the symptom profile and satisfaction rate for women undergoing hysterectomy with and without oophorectomy STUDY DESIGN: Women under 46 years of age who underwent hysterectomy with (n = 266) and without oophorectomy …
OBJECTIVE: To consider and explain the possibility of difficulties in diagnosis of endometriosis at previous laparoscopy DESIGN: Retrospective patient record review. SETTING: The Endometriosis Care Centre of Australia and the private prac…
OBJECTIVES: To assess the effectiveness of an integrated educational strategy to change clinician behaviour and reduce the number of hysteroscopies and/or dilatation and curettages for women 40 years or less with dysfunctional uterine bleed…
A retrospective audit of medical records was conducted for one surgeon (AL). All patients who underwent laparoscopic presacral neurectomy for severe midline dysmenorrhoea were identified. Details of the preoperative symptoms, clinical findi…
This study aimed to evaluate the prognostic value of the baseline serum oestradiol E2 level on the cycle pregnancy rate (PR) in women with unexplained infertility (UI) undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH). This study is uniq…
The medical records of all women who underwent hysterectomy for benign disease performed between 1986 and 1995 were reviewed to ascertain the incidence of morbidity and mortality of abdominal, vaginal, and laparoscopically assisted vaginal …
Despite 10 years of intensive education and training in Australia only around 14% of hysterectomies are performed with laparoscopic assistance. In particular total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) has a poor penetration rate because of perce…
The decision to perform bilateral oophorectomy at the time of surgery for endometriosis is dependent upon many factors, one of which is the opinion of the surgeon concerned. At present there is no consensus on this subject, and in an attemp…