Happy Halloween!

Good riddence to Hurricane Sandy! We are all happy to see the end of you... At Dominion Fertility we appreciate the dedication of our staff who braved falling trees and high water to make it to the office on Tuesday.It is important to have an emergency back-up plan for your IVF lab and this past 6 months have been pretty rough here in the Mid-Atlantic. First we had the crazy July storm (Derecho - which means crazy thunderstorm that no weather forecaster...

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Scare Tactics

My brother Steve loved to scare the daylights out of me when I was a kid. He hid under my bed, in my closet, in the boiler room in our basement, in the hall closet or in the garage just waiting for me to pass by before jumping out and trying to give me a heart attack. Just look at this picture of the two of us in the backyard of my house in Milton. Is there any way that I was not going to end up in therapy after being tormented incessantly? Actually,...

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New Hope for Hyperstim...Curing the OHSS Woes (Part 2: GnRH-antagonist Rescue).

So we have been using the Lupron trigger protocol in more patients and these patients cannot have been on a traditional LTL (long luteal lupron) or MDL (microdose Lupron flare) protocol. That means that the only patient eligible are those who are on a GnRH-antagonist protocol (one that uses Antagon or Centrotide) to eliminate the LH surge. Well, interestingly enough it turns out that adding GnRH-antagonists in the middle of a LTL or MDL flare...

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