Secretory changes in preovulatory endometrium during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with buserelin acetate and human gonadotropins

Maurizio Marchini, Luigi Fedele, Stefano Bianchi, Gabriele A. Losa, Morena Ghisletta, G Candiani
In: Fertility and Sterility · 1991 · vol. 55(4) , pp. 717–721 · doi:10.1016/s0015-0282(16)54236-8 · PMID:1901279 · W2408985229
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Abstract

Twenty-one patients with unexplained infertility underwent controlled ovarian hyperstimulation with buserelin acetate and human menopausal and chorionic gonadotropins, and follicular growth was monitored by ultrasonography and daily 17 beta-estradiol (E2) assays. Endometrial biopsy was performed when E2 levels were greater than or equal to 250 pg/mL per follicle and the follicular diameter was greater than or equal to 17 mm. As controls, we studied 20 preovulatory endometrial biopsies from patients with a male infertility factor. The biopsy material was examined at light, scanning, and transmission electron microscopes, and a morphometric analysis was performed. Preovulatory endometrial mucosa during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation showed accentuated proliferative aspects in both the glandular and stromal components and more frequent early secretory phenomena compared with the controls. The preovulatory progesterone (P) levels observed in our study seem to exclude the possibility that such early secretory aspects of the hyperstimulated endometrium are because of higher P concentrations in patients compared with controls.

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