OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact of intrauterine insemination timing performed 24 or 36 h later following ovulation trigger on clinical pregnancy rate during ovulation induction with clomiphene citrate among infertile women was the objective of this study. METHODS The medical records of 280 infertile patients who have underwent ovulation induction by using clomiphene citrate have been evaluat...

background: currently clomiphene citrate is the first-line treatment to induce ovulation in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos). surgical therapy with laparoscopic ovarian drilling (lod) may avoid or reduce the need for gonadotropins.   objective: to determine the effectiveness and safety of lod compared with ovulation induction in subfertile women with clomiphene-resistant pcos.   se...

The aim of this work was to evaluate the effect of different doses of eCG administered subcutaneously (0, 50 and 200 IU) and the hormonal induction of ovulation (GnRH or hCG) on embryo recovery and in vitro development of embryos post-vitrification in two selected lines of rabbit does. The two selected lines were line V (selected for the litter size at weaning) and line R (selected for growth r...

BACKGROUND Many hormone and ultrasound measurements have been assessed as possible markers of ovarian reserve and to identify potential poor responders to ovulation induction. The objective of this study is to determine whether multiple biomarkers measured in blood samples collected immediately before commencement of ovulation induction for IVF can predict the outcome of ovarian stimulation. ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if dexamethasone could be a suitable option in the treatment of patients with unexplained infertility. METHODS This study was carried out in the Obstetrics Department of Amir University Hospital, Semnan, Iran, from April 2001 to May 2008. One hundred and twenty-four cases of unexplained infertility that underwent ovulation induction and intrauterine insemination (IUI) (...

The clinical use of medical induction of ovulation in normogonadotrophic anovulatory women (WHO II), including polycystic ovary syndrome, is increasingly questioned. However, we believe that this treatment modality still represents a highly effective means of fertility treatment in women with low pregnancy chances without intervention. A conventional treatment algorithm involving clomiphene cit...