a Predictive Scheme for Poor Responders in IVF Cycles

A Predictive Scheme to Assess the Outcome of IVF/ICSI Cycles in Poor Responders. an Observational Study in Egypt

While practicing the different assisted reproductive techniques, the investigators are faced daily by the problem of poor responder females, and the debate about predicting its results based on the outcome of the different ORTs used. Due to the cost of AMH as an indicator for ovarian response, the need to re-assess its role was essential in our community, which led us to conduct this prospective multi-center IVF study.

Inclusion Criteria:

• normal body mass index (BMI)
• AMH from 0.5-1.1 ng/ml.
• previous history of ≤3 oocytes retrieved using conventional long stimulation protocol

Exclusion Criteria:

• Females suffering from other causes of infertility as tubal, uterine factors or known cases of endometriosis
• severe cases of male factor as azospermia
• females who were unable or not willing to participate in the study were excluded from the study.