Showing papers in "Fertility and Sterility in 1984"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduced the concept of an effective sperm count, which is obtained by multiplying the percentage of green-fluorescing sperm by the actual sperm count and found that the percent green correlates with neither actual sperm counts nor motility, indicating that this test measures a new parameter of male fertility.

TL;DR: Pregnancy occurred in 24 of 35 subjects who were involuntarily infertile, with the pregnancy rate increasing to 80% with the inclusion of the women sensitive to clomiphene.

TL;DR: The relationship of conventional semen parameters and the limits of these parameters for fertilization in vitro were analyzed from data over a 3-year period (1980 to 1982) as mentioned in this paper, where sperm motility was the single most important parameter determining the fertilization rate.

TL;DR: In this article, endometrial biopsy was performed between the first and third luteal phase day in 22 normally cycling patients following human menopausal gonadotropin and human chorionic gonadotropicin ovulation induction for in vitro fertilization but in whom embryo transfer was not accomplished.

TL;DR: Reversible down-regulation of pituitary/ovarian function using repetitive luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist administration can be a worthwhile approach to medical treatment of endometriosis.

TL;DR: During the 3 years from 1981 to 1983, 319 consecutive patients in 560 cycles were treated in a program of in vitro fertilization at Norfolk, where the pregnancy rate by cycle, transfer, and by patient was 19, 19, 25, and 33%.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of IVF, embryo culture (EC), and embryo transfer (ET) were compared by using two types of media: B 2 medium supplemented with human cord serum and B 3 medium without any serum.

TL;DR: It appears that higher FF estradiol levels correlate well with successful fertilization and an enhanced cleavage rate of oocytes associated with pregnancy following IVF.

TL;DR: Three protein spots have been identified whose expression was significantly lower in sperm samples before varicocelectomy compared with after surgery, and these proteins are all essential for normal sperm production and are affected by the heat generated by the existence of a varicocele.

TL;DR: It is suggested that IR is not related to LH or peripheral androgen metabolism but highly correlated with uT and SHBG, thus coupling two important factors in IR, obesity and the androgen level.

TL;DR: There was no obvious association between fertilization and cleavage of human oocytes and the quality of the medium ascertained by the mouse embryo development test.

TL;DR: The ovarian function of 20 healthy users of a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device was studied by measurements of plasma estradiol, progesterone, and levonergestrel concentrations, and there was no difference between the mean levonorheic and regularly menstruating subjects.

TL;DR: The impaired fertility in monkeys with endometriosis appeared to be mediated primarily by failure of follicular rupture and/or pelvic adhesions.

TL;DR: One hundred nineteen euprolactinemic anovulatory infertility patients who were being evaluated for induction of ovulation with clomiphene citrate were studied to determine the prevalence of increased adrenal androgen (AA) secretion in this group as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Peritoneal fluid acid phosphatase, PGF2 alpha and PGE2, and complement components C3c and C4 were significantly increased in patients with endometriosis, which may explain infertility associated with endometricriosis.

TL;DR: The morphologic features of endometriotic foci indicate that they do not follow the typical cyclic changes described for the uterine endometrium, and their microanatomic characterization is discussed in relation to the conflicting data concerning peritoneal fluid constituents and infertility in patients with minimal endometiotic lesions.

TL;DR: In this clinic, fresh semen is more than three times as likely to induce pregnancy as frozen semen, and the design that has been used in this therapeutic protocol provides a technique for internal quality control of the cryopreservation process.

TL;DR: The oral administration of 150 μg desogestrel and 30 μg ethinyl estradiol (EE2) increases (P) as discussed by the authors, while the oral administration with 30 μg EE2 does not.

TL;DR: In a rat model, SCMC was compared with normal saline and 32% dextran 70 in the prevention of surgically induced intraperitoneal adhesions as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Sperm penetration tests, using capillary tubes filled with albumen from hen's eggs, revealed that spermatozoa, when progressing forward, can carry chlamydiae attached to them, and was enhanced by increasing the acidity of the test environment.

TL;DR: To test whether adrenal suppression during clomiphene citrate therapy would improve ovulation/pregnancy rates, 64 anovulatory patients who had not previously received CC were randomly assigned to receive either 50 mg CC on days 5 to 9 alone or with 0.5 mg dexamethasone (CC + DEX).

TL;DR: Whether environmental pollutants can reach the human follicular fluid, an important biologic component for reproduction, in concentrations which could be harmful to the gamete is clarified.

TL;DR: It is concluded that in human menopausal gonadotropin-stimulated cycles, asynchrony between individual CCC mucification and oocyte maturation may occur, and that the absence of CCC does not seem to affect in vitro fertilization and cleavage rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that exposure to even high titers of antibodies in some serum samples did not result in total prevention of sperm penetration either of hamster eggs or cervical mucus, an indication that only certain antibody types prevent chances of fertility.

TL;DR: In this article, 50 couples with repeated pregnancy failures were grouped by clinical history as being primary (no children) or secondary (abortions subsequent to having children or stillbirths) aborters.

TL;DR: The results suggest that submucosal leiomyomas are a possible cause of infertility and are highly amenable to surgical treatment and subsequent restoration of fertility.