Comparison of Ovulation Induction Protocols After Endometrioma Resection

Comparison of Ovulation Induction Protocols After Endometrioma Resection

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes of long gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) and GnRH-antagonist (GnRH-ant) protocols in endometriosis patients who have undergone laparoscopic endometrioma resection surgery. To our knowledge, there is no study in the current literature that compares the effectiveness of long GnR...

Laparoscopic resection of sigmoid endometrioma.

Endometriosis as a cause for pelvic pain is quite common in women of child-bearing age. However, colonic an rectal involvement is relatively rare and may have a wide array of clinical symptomatology and radiographic findings. We recently treated a patient who presented with constipation and bloating. She was found to have an extrinsic mass compressing the rectosigmoid junction. Subsequent diagn...

Induction of ovulation.

Ovulation has been induced by clomiphene citrate and human gonadotropins in infertile women. Clomiphene should be the first choice in anovulatory women with active ovaries as indicated by basic levels of estrogens in blood or urine, in women with post-pill amenorrhea even if their ovaries are quiescent and in women with functional abnormalities of the hypothalamus or pituitary. Human gonadotrop...

Visual disturbance in pregnancy after induction of ovulation.

The case reported here was not unusual in being first investigated three years before treatment for infertility was instituted. Many patients who attend initially with secondary amenorrhoea only later request treatment for infertility. It is suggested that if a diagnosis of hypothalamic dysfunction has been made originally repeat x-ray films of the pituitary fossa should be taken before gonadot...

Emergency hypophysectomy in pregnancy after induction of ovulation.