Sir, We thank Benaglia et al. (2009) for their interesting study. In contrast to Nakagawa et al. (2008), they found that spontaneous ovulation is impaired in ovaries affected by endometriotic cysts. The same group previously observed hypo-responsiveness of the affected ovaries to gonadotrophin-induced controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) (Somigliana et al., 2006a, b). In all studies, ovula...

The aim of this study is to compare clinical pregnancy rates in ICSI-ET cycles where GnRH agonist or hCG was used to induce final maturation of the oocytes. A total of 97 women who produced more than 14 follicles following ovulation induction with recombinant FSH and GnRH antagonist were selected for randomization. Human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG, 5.000 IU, IM) or GnRH agonist (triptorelin 0....