background: anti-mullerian hormone (amh) is constantly secreted during menstrual cycles and may offer several advantages over traditional biomarkers of ovarian reserve. objective: to assess the relationship of anti-mullerian hormone (amh) values, which are used to evaluate ovary reserves, with oocyte and embryo quality and with art outcomes in patients undergoing intra-cytoplasmic sperm injecti...

The primary function of the female ovary is the production of a mature and viable oocyte capable of fertilization and subsequent embryo development and implantation. At birth, the ovary contains a finite number of oocytes available for folliculogenesis. This finite number of available oocytes is termed "the ovarian reserve". The determination of ovarian reserve is important in the assessment an...

The ovary receives a finite pool of follicles during fetal life. Atresia remains the major form of follicular expenditure at all stages since development of ovary. The follicular reserve, however, declines at an exponential rate leading to accelerated rate of decay during the years preceding menopause. We examined if diminished follicle reserve that characterizes ovarian aging impacts the attri...

study question: Does surgical treatment of endometriomas impact on the ovarian reserve as evaluated with antral follicle count (AFC)? summaryanswer: Thismeta-analysis of published data shows that surgery for endometrioma does not significantly affect ovarian reserve as evaluated by AFC. what is known already: Surgical excision of an ovarian endometrioma significantly affects ovarian reserve eva...

BACKGROUND This study was designed to determine whether small diameter needles for oocyte retrieval alter oocyte yields in patients undergoing IVF in comparison to standard large diameter needles. METHODS We conducted a prospective pilot study of 21 consecutive favorable prognosis patients. In each patient one ovary was randomly allocated to retrieval with either a 20 G/ 35 mm (thin) or 17 G/...

The human ovary is a dynamic organ which continually changes in size and activity through life, as an integral part of the changes that the female is going through before during and after her reproductive life. Following the rapid increase in the use of transvaginal scan in recent years, the measurement of ovarian volume has become quick, accurate and cost-effective. Ovarian volume is an import...

the premature and age-induced ovarian failure are associated with significant medical and quality of life complications. Moreover, millions of children and adults suffer from iatrogenically-induced premature gonadal failure as a result of chemotherapy treatments. In the case of chemotherapy, commonly used cancer drugs such as doxorubicin or cyclophosphamide result in apoptotic death of primordi...

The human ovary contains a fixed number of non-growing follicles (NGFs) established before birth that decline with increasing age culminating in the menopause at 50-51 years. The objective of this study is to model the age-related population of NGFs in the human ovary from conception to menopause. Data were taken from eight separate quantitative histological studies (n = 325) in which NGF popul...

A reliable indirect measure of ovarian reserve for the individual woman remains a challenge for reproductive specialists. Using descriptive statistics from a large-scale study of ovarian volumes, we have developed a normative model for healthy females for ages 25 through 85. For average values, this model has a strong and positive correlation (r = 0.89) with our recent model of nongrowing folli...