The effect of laparoscopic ablation or danocrine on pregnancy rates in patients with stage I or II endometriosis undergoing donor insemination.
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Patients with laparoscopic-confirmed stage I or II endometriosis undergoing donor insemination had significantly lower fecundity compared to those with normal anatomy, and neither ablation nor danocrine improved pregnancy rates.
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The effect of treatment on stages I and II endometriosis was evaluated in 61 women with laparoscopically proven disease who were undergoing therapeutic donor insemination. Only treatment cycles completed after diagnostic laparoscopy were used for analysis. To evaluate fecundity, we performed life-table analysis on 343 treatment cycles of therapeutic donor insemination in 67 patients with stage I or II endometriosis and compared it with 212 cycles in 43 patients with no female infertility factors. Average monthly fecundity and cumulative conception rates over six cycles were calculated for each group. A significant difference was found when patients with laparoscopically proven normal anatomy were compared with those with endometriosis (P = .002). The fecundity did not differ significantly between stage I and stage II endometriosis (P greater than .05). Neither ablation during laparoscopy nor medical treatment with danocrine improved the fecundity of patients with early-stage endometriosis (P greater than .05).
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