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Filter by:In donors or patients undergoing assisted reproduction treatments (ART) it is necessary to closely control ovarian stimulation to monitor the number and size of developing follicles. Oestradiol (E2) and progesterone (P4) are products of steroidogenesis. Their concentrations increase with the diameter of the growing follicle. In order to assess treatment response and support clinical decisions, accurate and reliable methods to measure E2 and P4 are essential. Measurement of both hormones, as well as monitoring of follicle growth through ultrasound measurements, is an important part of ovarian stimulation, requiring patients or donors to undergo multiple blood draws. It is often a physically and emotionally painful process, and the most convenient solution is the measurement of hormones concentrations in other biological fluids, such as saliva. Salivary diagnostic tests are a less invasive, inexpensive, and stress-free alternative. The current study pretends to evaluate the correlation between salivary ELISA assays and serum determination of progesterone and oestradiol concentrations in oocyte donors, and, also, evaluate the feasibility of doing saliva E2 and P4 determinations in the IVIRMA clinic labs.
prospective observational study over POSEIDON group 3 and POSEIDON group 4 with antagonist protocol for clinical pregnancy rate outcomes
A single center study to evaluate the performance and optimize the design of a novel intrauterine catheter system intended as a nonsignificant risk medical device to aid in evaluating tubal patency as part of the initial diagnostic workup for infertility.
The aim of this clinical trial is to investigate the change in endometrial composition during the window of implantation following intrauterine administration of PBMC immunomodulated with IFNt. Patients seeking assisted reproductive therapy will be invited to participate. Two endometrial biopsies will be obtained from each patient during mid-secretory phase of two consecutive menstrual cycles. The first biopsy will be obtained one month before the intervention, and the second one - a day after intrauterine administration of the tested cell treatment which will take place the following month. Immunohistochemistry analysis of the cell composition of the endometrium will be performed.
The goal of this clinical trial is to test the effect of modulated specialised immune cells isolated from the patients' own blood when administered to the uterus before embryo transfer on the IVF outcome (implantation, pregnancy and live birth rates). To achieve this, blood will be obtained from eligible participants. Target cells will be isolated and incubated with the tested modulator for 24h, and returned to the uterine cavity 1 day prior to embryo transfer. Researchers will compare the reproductive outcome of the tested intervention to that of a control group who will not receive the investigated cell treatment prior to embryo transfer.
The large number of women in their child bearing age is affected by Polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) leading to infertility. However it is considered as a multisystem disorder with comorbidities rather than a gynecological and a dermatological problem. Patient mostly have anovulation presented as oligomennorhea or amenorrhea and hyperandrogenism presented as hirsutism along with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance. The presence of multiple cysts in the ovaries is not essential for diagnosis. Many etiological factors are reported but those actually responsible for PCOS in females still need to be explored. However hyperandrogenism and insulin resistance being the key triggering condition apart from cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension and obesity. Nearly 100 million women are effected with this disease worldwide. World Health Organization (WHO) has considered Infertilty as public health problem. it was the objective of UN conference 2015 to provide access and quality reproductive health services to all individuals. About 50 to 80% women having PCOS are obese. Researchers reported the obesity role in occurrence of PCOS and its Infertilty relation . Poly cystic ovary syndrome is not a simple pathophysiologic process for which one treatment address all manifestation. Treatment should target specific manifestations and individualized patient goals. When choosing a treatment regimen, physicians must take into account comorbidities and the patient's desire for pregnancy. First-line agents for ovulation induction and treatment of infertility in patients with PCOS include metformin and clomiphene alone or in combination. It has been approved as category "A "to regulate ovulation and improves pregnancy rates in women with PCOS . Mostly it result in complication like multiple follicle recruitment rate, multiple pregnancy and thining of endometrial wall leading to early abortion and endometrial cancers.The use of naturally occurring compounds like myoinositol, D-chiro- inositol and L- carnitine which are already part of human body are expected to produce significant results without any side effects . The proposed study will provide an alternative to current treatments available for infertility due to PCOS. The expected project execution time is 1 years. Thus, the present project will discover new insights about treatment of infertilty and thus generate new knowledge which will help Academia, scientists and health care professionals. Moreover, the proposed project involves, "the formulation of new drugs" which can be patent and may benefit Pharmaceutical industry of Pakistan as well. Results of the study will be disseminated on different forums including to policy makers , Pharmaceutical, national and international agencies. The result will be published in journal both national and international with good impact factors. The outcome of the project will be used as publication in high impact international journals, filling of patents and will also be presented in national and international forums.
The aim of study is to evaluate the results of three different protocols for prevention of premature ovulation in ovarian stimulation cycles. All patients that undergo IVF cycles are randomly divided into three groups. The first group is cetrorelix, the second group is medroxyprogesterone acetate and the third group is dydrogesterone.
To compare the difference in cumulative live birth rates within one year between double stimulations protocol and two-cycle antagonist protocol in poor ovarian responders.
The junctional zone (JZ) is an internal layer of the myometrium, with unique characteristics that allow its visualization as a hypoechogenic structure in three-dimensional (3D) ultrasound. While there is a growing realization that the origins of major obstetrical complications associated with defective deep placentation, such as pre-term labour, fetal growth restriction and pre-eclampsia, may lie in the very early pregnancy events, the underlying mechanisms are not understood.
Hysiological intracytoplasmic sperm injection (PICSI) is a technique used to select healthy, mature sperm for use in infertility treatment based on their physiological ability to bind to hyaluronan (HA), a natural compound found in the body. The relationship between sperm and hyaluronan can be used a marker of sperm maturity and optimal fertilising potentialÍž this principle can be observed in vitro using a PICSI sperm selection device. The PICSI Dish contains microdots of hyaluronan, which only mature sperm bind to and these are selected by the embryologist prior to use in the intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) procedure. Recurrent miscarriages following infertility treatment are mainly idiopathic, but can be linked with increased chromosomal abnormalities. PICSI has been shown to result in better embryo development and reduced chromosomal abnormalities, due to selection of mature sperm with low DNA damage. Therefore, PICSI may be a useful tool for reducing the rate of miscarriage following infertility treatment. The recent HABSelect study investigated treatment outcomes following PICSI, and whilst they concluded no effect on livebirth rate, they found a significant association in their secondary analysis between PICSI and reduced miscarriage rate compared to ICSI. The implications of the HABSelect study deserve to be explored further with miscarriage rate assessed as a primary outcome measure. This proof-of-concept randomised-controlled-trial aims to investigate whether PICSI shows some promise that would merit evaluation in a fully-powered trial to assess its efficacy as an advanced sperm selection method for the reduction of miscarriage rate. Eligible study participants will be patients undergoing fertility treatment using ICSI, who have provided consent for PICSI. Patients will be randomly allocated to two groups: the control group will receive ICSI according to standard protocol, and the intervention group will have additional sperm selection by HA-binding in a PICSI dish.