M R Soules

OBJECTIVE: Our intention was to determine whether there is a unique pattern of infertility diagnoses in older infertile couples. STUDY DESIGN: The design of this study was a retrospective chart review study. It was performed in a tertiary …

OBJECTIVE: Women of advanced reproductive age are known to demonstrate subtle FSH elevations (monotropic FSH rise) while still retaining ovulatory function. The purpose of this study was to investigate the hypothesis that the physiologic ba…

OBJECTIVE: Patients with endometriosis were studied to investigate hormonal suppression by the gonadotropin-releasing hormone against nafarelin acetate compared with danazol. We hypothesized that the pattern, time course, and degree of gona…

We examined two groups of infertile women who underwent microsurgical repair of their fallopian tube(s) for distal tubal obstruction, one with a history of salpingitis (overt pelvic inflammatory disease) (N = 34) and one without (silent pel…

Luteal phase deficiency is an ovulatory dysfunction problem that is subtle but real. It may be the most common ovulatory problem in women. Luteal phase deficiency has been clearly demonstrated in the research setting (1) in spontaneous cycl…

The males of 279 infertile couples were evaluated with hamster ovum sperm penetration assay (SPA) and seminal fluid analysis. The mean SPA score for the total population was 23.0% penetration with a range of 0-97%. Twenty five percent of th…

In an attempt to clarify further the relationship between ovarian function and uterine leiomyomas, we investigated the cytoplasmic estrogen and progesterone receptor content in these uterine tumors. The study population consisted of 17 wome…

Over an 8 year period, 350 cases of endometriosis (77 per cent confirmed histologically) from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, were reviewed. Of these cases, 58 (17 per cent) exhibited significant ano…