Over the years certain patients really stick out in your memory. This week one of my favorite fertility veterans brought in a whole box of homemade cookies to the office. Needless to say, they were consumed within 45 minutes and I got one or two but almost lost my hand in the feeding frenzy that occurred. In any case, this young woman had really been through the ringer. Low responder, high FSH, pregnancy loss, antiphospholipid antibodies requiring Lovenox, male factor….and the list always seemed to keep growing. However, the low point was an ectopic...
jeudi 11 décembre 2008
mardi 9 décembre 2008
Hydrosalpinx, hydrosalpinges and IVF
Posted on 11:20 by Unknown
Again the weeks have just flown past with no additional blog entries by yours truly. I have no excuse really. Just too busy, too tired, too overextended…yadda, yadda, yadda. So beat me, slap me and call me dirt.The issue of blocked fallopian tubes is a very important one, even in patients undergoing IVF. Now on the surface this makes little sense because if IVF is used to bypass the fallopian tubes then who really cares if they are abnormal? A reasonable concern and one that for many years we agreed with as we entered patients into the IVF process....
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