PCOS and Fertility

A special issue of Reproductive Medicine (ISSN 2673-3897).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 4614

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Dear Colleagues, 

PCOS, short for polycystic ovarian syndrome, is one of the most common, but treatable, causes of infertility in women.

This Special Issue, entitled “PCOS and Fertility”, will present studies in fields related to PCOS and fertility preservation. We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue on the potential value and impact of PCOS with original contributions and review articles focusing on recent and related advances in the field, including the latest trends and future developments.

Dr. Giuseppe Gullo
Prof. Dr. Gaspare Cucinella
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • PCOS
  • polycystic ovarian syndrome
  • fertility

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The Effect of In Vitro Maturation (IVM) Protocol Changes on Measures of Oocyte/Embryo Competence
by Bruce I. Rose, Kevin Nguyen and Samuel E. Brown
Reprod. Med. 2023, 4(1), 65-73; https://doi.org/10.3390/reprodmed4010008 - 10 Mar 2023
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Purpose: In vitro maturation (IVM) continues its evolution as new ideas are introduced with the objective of making the IVM procedure easier and more effective. This study combines ideas believed likely to improve the IVM outcome or make the IVM oocyte identification process [...] Read more.
Purpose: In vitro maturation (IVM) continues its evolution as new ideas are introduced with the objective of making the IVM procedure easier and more effective. This study combines ideas believed likely to improve the IVM outcome or make the IVM oocyte identification process easier. Methods: A cohort of 45 women underwent an IVM cycle in which letrozole was used with the theoretical objective of improving the competence of small antral follicles, the oocyte aspiration technique was modified to minimize the time between oocyte aspiration and oocyte identification, and blastocysts were transferred during a subsequent cycle with controlled endometrial development. Results: Measures of oocyte competence used for these prospectively followed cycles were as follows: the maturation rate was 90.5%, the fertilization rate was 92.4%, the cleavage rate was 94.6%, the usable blastulation rate per zygote was 50.2%, and the implantation rate was 34.2%. Per transfer, the biochemical pregnancy rate was 63.2%, the clinical pregnancy rate was 55.3% and the ongoing/delivered pregnancy rate at the end of the first trimester was 47.4%. The miscarriage rate for clinical pregnancies in the first trimester was 14.3% and the ongoing twinning rate was 11.1%. Full article
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