{"title":"Utilization of long and short acting GnRH-A: effects on multiple ovulation induction for gift preparation.","authors":"N Garcea","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The authors show the advantages of the use of GnRH-Analogues in assisted procreation: reduction of cycle cancellation; better ovulatory timing without premature luteinization; syncronous follicular recruitment with high number of mature oocytes.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 2","pages":"107-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18712259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endometriosis.","authors":"G B La Sala, M A Benigno, E Cittadini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 2","pages":"67-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18712260","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Advantages of treatment with human follicular fluid in the management of severely dyspermic patients in human in vitro fertilization programs.","authors":"M Bajamonte, G Ruvolo, C Cimino, E Cittadini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 26 couples undergoing in-vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF/ET), where the male partner was severely dyspermic, the seminal fluid was treated with Pellet Swim-up (PSu), modified by a 20-minute sperm incubation period in non-decomplemented human follicular fluid (hFF) diluted to 50%. In another group of 26 severely dyspermic couples undergoing IVF/ET, the semen was treated with a variant of centrifugation on discontinuous Percoll gradients (CDPG), called mini-CDPG. Pre-treatment with hFF produced a significant increase in oocyte fertilization rate (46.8% in the hFF group compared with 18.4% in the mini-CDPG couples; Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test: D = 0.5, p < 0.01), in the transfer rate per patient (96.1% in the hFF group and 50% in the mini-CDPG group; (Chi-square Test: x2 = 11.827, p < 0.001), and in the pregnancy rate per patient (respectively of 26.9% and 0%; Fisher's exact probability test: P = 0.0049, p < 0.01). There was a high miscarriage rate in the pregnancies obtained in the hFF group (42.8%). The results might be linked to a positive effect of the hFF on sperm capacity and on acrosome reaction. The Authors conclude that the use of hFF would seem to be an extremely useful treatment of the semen of severely dyspermic patients in assisted fertilization programs.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 2","pages":"87-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18712262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of ketoconazole (an imidazole antifugal agent) on the fertility and reproductive function of male mice.","authors":"S C Joshi, G C Jain, M Lata","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Administration of ketoconazole, an imidazole antifungal agent (400 mg/kg b.wt. orally for a period of 60 days) resulted in a significant decline in sperm motility and density in cauda epididymis. A sharp decline in fertility (50% negative) in Ketoconazole treated mice was observed. A significant reduction in the total protein and sialic acid contents of testes, epididymis, seminal vesicle and ventral prostate were noticed. The cholesterol contents of testes were raised while fructose contents of seminal vesicle were reduced significantly. The ketoconazole treatment altered the biochemical milieu of the reproductive tract. The mechanism of action is discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 1","pages":"55-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18884951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Palermo, C. Albano, V. Agrifoglio, L. Giambanco, P. Napoli
{"title":"Anovulatory infertility.","authors":"R. Palermo, C. Albano, V. Agrifoglio, L. Giambanco, P. Napoli","doi":"10.1093/humrep/10.6.1549","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/10.6.1549","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"18 1","pages":"93-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73927352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unexplained infertility.","authors":"G B La Sala, E Cittadini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 1","pages":"7-17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18884947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia in women with abnormal uterine bleeding.","authors":"G Loverro, S Bettocchi, M Vicino, L Selvaggi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Reliability of hysteroscopy in diagnosing endometrial hyperplasia in women with abnormal uterine bleeding.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Out of 105 patients with abnormal uterine bleeding 47 showed structural abnormalities. Comparative analysis between hysteroscopic and histological results in 58 women without gross abnormalities has been performed in order to verify sensitivity and specificity of hysteroscopy in the diagnosis of endometrial hyperplasia.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Specificity of hysteroscopy in diagnosing endometrial hyperplasia was 84.7% while sensitivity resulted to be 80%.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Women with abnormal uterine bleeding and normal uterine cavity has a low rate (3.4%) of false negative endometrial hyperplasia. On the contrary findings of endometrial hyperplasia at hysteroscopy has a high incidence of false positive (25.8%). In conclusion, abnormal uterine bleeding could cause an increased thickness in endometrium, appearing as hyperplasia on hysteroscopic examination.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 1","pages":"23-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18884938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating test for the fecundating strength of the spermatozoa.","authors":"M Cantarelli, G B La Sala","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"25 1","pages":"43-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18884943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}