{"title":"Reproductive performance in women with bicornuate uterus.","authors":"F Maneschi, R Marana, L Muzii, S Mancuso","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The medical records of 21 patients with bicornuate uterus were analyzed. Thirteen patients did not undergo corrective surgery, whereas eight underwent metroplasty. The pregnancies in patients who did not undergo surgery, and the outcome evaluated. The outcome of pregnancies after corrective surgery was also analyzed. The cumulative pregnancy rates at 12 and 24 months were 67% and 95% in patients without surgical correction and 63% and 88% in patients after surgical correction. The probability of giving birth to a live-born infant with no corrective surgery was 30%, 58% and 79% for the first, second and third pregnancy respectively; the probability of giving birth to a live-born infant after corrective surgery was 71% for the first and 86% for the second pregnancy. Fertility is not impaired in patients with bicornuate uterus, but gestational capacity is. A prognostic estimate of the likelihood of giving birth to a live-born infant can be formulated according to the number of pregnancies and/or surgical correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"117-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980525","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}
A F De Rose, S Scotto, G F Oppezzi, V Bruno, P Audino, M Costa, F Ferrando
{"title":"The surgical correction of varicocele: multidisciplinary study on semen evaluation and prognostic factors for fertility.","authors":"A F De Rose, S Scotto, G F Oppezzi, V Bruno, P Audino, M Costa, F Ferrando","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The seminal pattern was studied in a group of 52 patients before and six months after sclerotherapy of varicocele. In this series, we studied the differences in clinical and seminal characteristics between the group that succeeded in obtaining a pregnancy and the group that remained infertile after 1 year follow-up. The difference in pregnancy rate is discussed between the operated group and a control group of pz, who refused any form of surgery, after 1 year follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"121-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980526","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 Schoysman, L Segal, P Van der Zwalmen, M Nijs, G Bertin, E Cittadini, C Cimino, G Ruvolo, E Cefalù, R Palermo
{"title":"Fertilization of oocytes by testicular spermatozoa and pregnancy in the human.","authors":"R Schoysman, L Segal, P Van der Zwalmen, M Nijs, G Bertin, E Cittadini, C Cimino, G Ruvolo, E Cefalù, R Palermo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"103-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980522","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}
N Mićić S Papić, N Papić, I Mladenović, O Genbacev
{"title":"Intrauterine insemination as a successful method in the treatment of infertility caused by oligospermia.","authors":"N Mićić S Papić, N Papić, I Mladenović, O Genbacev","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Intrauterine insemination combined with controlled ovarian hyperstimulation was used in treating couples with infertility problem caused by oligospermia. We reported 85 cases, with sperm number less than 20.0 x 10(6) per insemination sample. We obtained successful insemination with 0.7 x 10(6) motile sperm cells per insemination sample. We were particularly successful in treating severe oligospermia. Most of the pregnancies in our population of patients ended in delivering singletons. In conclusion, infertility caused by oligospermia may be successfully treated using IUI with controlled ovarian stimulation. Our opinion is that the accuracy of IUI timing is critical, especially when severe oligospermia is concerned.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"123-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980527","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":"Hypothesis: improving the semen quality.","authors":"K P Skandhan","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Author proposes repeated ejaculations as a method for improving the semen quality in terms of total spermatozoa count and the percentage of motile spermatozoa. This must be helpful to many oligozoospermic, oligoasthenozoospermic and asthenozoospermic patients.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"129-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980528","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":"LUF-syndrome biological diagnosis by basal body temperature (BBT) graph.","authors":"F Scarpellini, C Curto, L Scarpellini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>73 consecutive patients were monitored and submitted to ambulatorial screening for primary infertility. In all of them was also performed a study of the BBT behaviour and the results reported on a graph. All these with LUF syndrome had substantial deviation of the BBT graphs. This observation can make us obtain a new parameter and a first diagnostic approach in the study of the ovulatory infertility.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 3","pages":"113-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18980524","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":"Clinical situations challenging the established concept of epididymal physiology in the human.","authors":"R Schoysman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 2","pages":"55-60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19163528","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}
I Mladenović, O Genbacev, M Movsesijan, S Mićić, N Papić
{"title":"Gonadotropins (FSH and LH) and testosterone in human male serum and seminal plasma.","authors":"I Mladenović, O Genbacev, M Movsesijan, S Mićić, N Papić","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Concentrations of gonadotropins (FSH and LH) and testosterone (T) were measured in male serum and the seminal plasma of normo-, oligo- and azoospermic ejaculates. In addition, T levels were measured in tissue extracts of testis and prostate. The concentrations of FSH were nearly the same in seminal plasma and serum. However LH levels were higher in seminal plasma, while T levels were higher in serum. In azoospermic samples, the gonadotropins showed increased concentrations, while T levels were decreased. The concentrations of all three hormones differed in the seminal plasma of infertile men compared to the control group.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 2","pages":"79-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19162780","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}
B Berardono, D Melani, F Ranaldi, E Giachetti, P Vanni
{"title":"Is the salivary \"ferning\" a reliable index of the fertile period?","authors":"B Berardono, D Melani, F Ranaldi, E Giachetti, P Vanni","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We found that the fern leaf crystallisation of human saliva is a non-specific phenomenon, independent on the action of estrogenic hormones. Salivary ferning can be obtained in practice during the whole menstrual cycle and occurs in the saliva of postclimateric, pregnant and prepuberal women. Even the saliva of male subjects gives invariably the ferning reaction. In conclusion, salivary ferning does not seem a reliable method to establish woman fertile period.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 2","pages":"61-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19163531","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":"CA-125 and uterine leiomyomas.","authors":"F Scarpellini, M Minozzi, C Curto, L Scarpellini","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>CA-125, in the past considered as marker of ovarian neoplasms, has been proven to be useful successively in several obstetric-gynecologic physiopathologic conditions (Endometriosis, beginning pregnancy, PID), united by the common characteristic of peritoneal involvement. Such evidence has suggested us to search possible correlations with uterine leiomyomatosis disease, which for its frequency has the character of a social disease. Our findings would justify the clinical use of this marker in the first screening of fibromiomas, but above all, its diagnostic utility in evolutive aspects of such pathology.</p>","PeriodicalId":7016,"journal":{"name":"Acta Europaea fertilitatis","volume":"24 2","pages":"75-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19163533","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}