Intrauterine insemination (IUI) as a type of artificial insemination involves the placement of sperm directly into the uterus at the time of ovulation, either in a natural menstrual cycle or following ovarian stimulation. The process allows the concentration of sperm in a small volume of culture media and then the concentrated sperm is placed into the uterus through a transcervical catheter. IU...

OBJECTIVE To determine the efficacy of daily versus alternate-day stimulation for patients undergoing intrauterine insemination (IUI). DESIGN Retrospective comparative study. SETTING University tertiary care center for infertility. PATIENT(S) Women with anovulatory or unexplained infertility for over 12 months who had not responded to or not conceived with clomiphene citrate treatment. ...

BACKGROUND We recently reported that treatment with intrauterine insemination and controlled ovarian stimulation (IUI-COS) did not increase ongoing pregnancy rates compared with expectant management (EM) in couples with unexplained subfertility and intermediate prognosis of natural conception. Long-term cost-effectiveness of a policy of initial EM is unknown. We investigated whether the recomme...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk of major birth defects in cohorts of children conceived through IVF or through IUI as compared with naturally conceived children. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Academic medical center. PATIENT(S) Children conceived by IVF or IUI at the University of Iowa from 1989 through 2002, compared with a matched cohort of naturally conceived children. I...

OBJECTIVE To identify prognostic factors influencing the outcome of infertility treatment using intrauterine insemination with donor semen (IUI-D). DESIGN Retrospective study of all patients undergoing IUI-D between August 1st, 1990 and July 31st, 1998. SETTING University-affiliated infertility clinic. PATIENTS Three hundred and five couples undergoing 1131 IUI-D treatment cycles. MAIN ...

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INTRODUCTION Superovulation-intrauterine insemination (SO-IUI) is the most common assisted reproductive technique (ART) in the world, with good evidence of efficacy and cost-effectiveness. However, parameters affecting its success have not been consistently reported. So in this study, we aim at determining the parameters influencing the success rate of SO-IUI. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conduct...

BACKGROUND Research supports that in vitro fertilization causes anxiety and that anxiety can continue into the resulting pregnancy. Most women who have IVF will have a less invasive treatment for infertility prior to IVF; however, it is unclear if specific less invasive treatment cycles impact anxiety that is experienced in the pregnancy resulting from IVF. METHODS A prospective study was con...

Purpose The Cap-ScoreTMwas developed to assess the capacitation status of men, thereby enabling personalized management of unexplained infertility by choosing timed intrauterine insemination (IUI), versus immediate in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in individuals with a low Cap-ScoreTM. The objective of this study was to estimate the differences in outcomes...

Objective: The objective of the present study was to detect the presence of any sperm selecting and / or motivating factor in the cervical mucus (CM) of ovulatory women, which, in turn, might influence pregnancy rate. Materials & Methods: The study was conducted with 190 infertile couples, having indications for moderate seminopathy, enlisted for intra-uterine insemination (IUI), following rout...