This «freeze - all» approach, initially developed as a strategy for minimising risk of ovarian hysperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) in high risk patients, also addresses concerns that some have raised that the drugs used
for ovarian stimulation during IVF may have a negative impact on the uterine receptivity of some patients.
PFC was one of the initial study sites for FDA approval of the Follistim Pen, an FSH medication delivery device that today has made fertility drug administration much easier and comfortable for patients and is now widely used
for ovarian stimulation.
She will need to take fertility medication
for ovarian stimulation.
Not exact matches
Some women don't respond to
ovarian stimulation and are thus candidates
for in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Our Virginia fertility center uses similar
ovarian stimulation techniques
for eggs and embryos.
Frozen embryo transfer allows a woman's ovary to recover from
ovarian stimulation during in vitro fertilization and also gives time
for her exposed endometrial lining to shed.
But in the meantime, non-IVF fertility treatments such as
ovarian stimulation and ovulation induction —
for instance, with the drug clomiphene citrate — have increased to become the predominant source of medically assisted multiple births in the country while IVF is increasingly producing twins.
IUI with
ovarian stimulation is in many countries first - line fertility treatment
for couples with unexplained and mild male infertility.
Given this risk, it is also a matter of some controversy of how the
ovarian stimulation for IUI should be performed, either with a course of routinely used injections of follicle stimulating hormone (FSH) or a shorter course of the non-hormonal drug clomiphene citrate.
Success rates
for IUI are approximately 15 percent to 20 percent per cycle and vary based on a number of factors, such as your age, type of
ovarian stimulation, motility of sperm, among others.
Results were controlled
for other sources of energy, infertility diagnosis,
ovarian stimulation protocol, body mass index (BMI) and smoking status.
«Thus, having fewer mature oocytes can mean fewer embryos to choose from
for fresh transfer or future transfer following cryopreservation, particularly among women who respond poorly to
ovarian stimulation.»