

Research question
What is the predictive value of serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) level for natural conception and its clinical effect on subfertile couples?
A retrospective cohort of ovulatory women seeking fertility consultation in a private fertility clinic. Couples who had an immediate indication for IVF were excluded. All natural conceptions leading to live birth before the start of assisted reproductive technology were followed within 12 months of the initial consultation. A prediction model was developed by updating the Hunault model with serum AMH to predict the probabilities of achieving a natural conception leading to live birth.
A total of 325 couples were included in the final analysis. The estimated cumulative proability of achieving natural conception leading to live birth within 12 months was 20.9% (95% CI 12.9% to 28.2%). The categorical net reclassification improvement of AMH is 7.6%. Fo
Objectives
This study aims to examine the capacity of anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) to predict cumulative live birth rate (CLBR) following IVF/ICSI within 36 months since start of treatment.
This is a cohort study of women seeking IVF/ICSI fertility treatment in a private Australian IVF clinic in a single calendar year. Live births were monitored over three years following start date of IVF/ICSI. The impact of serum AMH level on the CLBR was assessed using Cox’s proportional hazard models, and its incremental values in the prediction of CLBR were evaluated.
The CLBRs were significantly higher in women with AMH levels in the highest (>44.5 pmol/L; 87.0%, 95% CI 79.2% – 95.1%) and in the middle two quartiles (between 11.5 and 44.5 pmol/L; 81.0%, 95% CI 74.2% – 87.6%), compared with AMH levels below the 25th percentile (≤11.5 pmol/L; 63.2%, 95% CI 53.2% – 74.5%). Approximately half of …
| Introduction: Keratoconus is a chronic, noninflammatory, progressive, ectatic corneal disorder that degrades vision due to myopia and irregular astigmatism. Recently, the priority of posterior corneal astigmatism has been identified when toric IOL is considered. The aim of the study was to assess and correlate the power and axis orientation of anterior and posterior corneal astigmatism in keratoconus patients and healthy controls. Patients and methods: This was a retrospective cross sectional comparative study which involve 100 eyes of 50 KC patients and 100 eyes of 50 control group. Which they have a scans of corneal tomography maps of goodquality that analyzed by pentacam. Results: The mean magnitudes of the ACA and PCA in KC group were higher than controls and the axis orientation of corneal astigmatism was 71% WTR for ACA and 73% ATR for PCA and there were significant correlations between ACA and PCA with TCA, the effect of ACA on TCA was 6.1% and of PCA on TCA was 9.2%. Conclusion: In KC magnitudes of the ACA and PCA were significantly higher than controls, and we found a significant correlation between the magnitudes of ACA, PCA to the magnitudes of TCA in both groups. The axis orientations of the ACA and PCA were WTR and ATR, respectively in most of KC cases. |
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