Introduction: Ultrasound is a specific method of examination in early stages pregnancy, with specificity 97.6%1. It usually determines the location and viability pregnancy gestational age by 5 weeks pregnancy2. In addition to these other conditions like uterine anomalies, adnexal diseases, cervical length can all be diagnosed first trimester.3 First trimester ultrasound predict chorionicity, ty...

The present study was designed to investigate a possible role for ovarian steroids in the regulation of rat uterine oxytocin receptor (OTR) mRNA expression before labour. By using a competitive RT-PCR system, we have previously reported that parturition was associated with high levels of uterine OTR mRNA in all the animals examined. On the other hand, near term, some rats showed high OTR mRNA l...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of fibroids on the blood flow of the uterine and subendometrial arteries and in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes. METHODS In this study, we analyzed 86 IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles in which a gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonist protocol was used for controlled ovarian stimulation between January 2008 and March 2009. The subject...

The regulation of ovarian and uterine blood flow are important aspects of reproductive physiology. Rapid and profound alterations in the vasculature of the cycling ovary have been reported and suggestions that blood flow to individual follicles may play an instrumental role in the selection and maturation of the dominant follicle in the primate (Zeleznik etal, 1991). More recent data indicates ...

Background: Urinary human chorionic gonadotropin is the most widely used medicine for ovulation in ovarian stimulation cycles. Recently however, recombinant HCG has also become commercially available. This study presents compare the use of recombinant hCG with urinary hCG during controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intra uterine insemination (COH-IUI ) cycles Materials and Methods: This is s...

OBJECTIVE To asses the frequency of ectopic pregnancy and to evaluate the relevance of the risk factors in a Medical Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). METHODS This retrospective study was done in Royal Commission Medical Centre, Yanbu Industrial City, KSA over a period of four years, where the medical records of patients with the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy were reviewed. Data was col...

Heterotopic pregnancy refers to the presence of simultaneous pregnancies in two different implantation sites, generally one intra-uterine pregnancy and one extra-uterine pregnancy (usually tubal). This is a rare case of a heterotopic pregnancy involving concurrent intra-uterine pregnancy and caesarean section scar pregnancy (CSEP). CSEPs are at a high risk of bleeding and uterine rupture, carry...

Pregnancy rates are low and litter sizes generally small when assisted reproduction techniques are used in gonadotropin-treated felid (cat) species. A prerequisite to determining whether or not abnormal morphological changes in the uterine lumen or corpus luteum (CL) are related to this reproductive failure is the documentation of normal histological kinetics during natural embryogenesis. This ...

Ectopic molar pregnancy is extremely rare, and preoperative diagnosis is difficult. Our literature search found only one report of molar pregnancy diagnosed preoperatively. Moreover, there is no English literature depicting magnetic resonance image (MRI) findings of ectopic molar pregnancy. We report a case of ectopic molar pregnancy preoperatively diagnosed using MRI. A literature review of 31...