Kuribayashi Y

Myotonic dystrophy (MD) is an autosomal dominant disorder primarily characterized by myotonia. The present study describes the case of a 42-year-old woman who was transferred to the authors' department with acute abdomen and restrictive res…

OBJECTIVE: To elucidate the risk factors associated with resignation from work of Japanese women undergoing infertility treatment. METHODS: A total of 1727 female patients who attended a private fertility clinic in Japan participated in th…

OBJECTIVE: The endometriosis fertility index (EFI) is a novel index for predicting pregnancy after surgery. We investigated the utility of the EFI for predicting the ability to conceive without assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatme…

AIM: The aim of this study was to observe the insides of the fallopian tubes of patients with unilateral or bilateral endometriomas by using salpingoscopy and evaluate the inner cavity of the fallopian tubes according to our original scorin…

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate how many oocytes are needed to achieve an adequate pregnancy rate per 1 oocyte retrieval cycle in mild ovarian stimulation. METHODS: This protocol consisted of clomiphene citrate and re…

PURPOSE: The purpose was to establish a mild ovarian stimulation protocol that would help assisted reproductive technology (ART) units to avoid scheduling on weekends. METHODS: This protocol directed patients to take 50 mg/day of clomiphen…

PURPOSE: To determine whether embryos cultured with a low oxygen level (2%) brought about beneficial effects on the outcome of ART. METHODS: This is a sequential case-control embryo-culture study. Embryos were cultured either with a gas mi…

PURPOSE: We attempted clinical application of a plastic blade, which is a novel cryopreservation device, for vitrification of human embryos and blastocysts. METHODS: Between February 2003 and December 2007, a total of 4,430 Day 3 embryos f…