STUDY QUESTION: What is the recommended management for couples presenting with unexplained infertility (UI), based on the best available evidence in the literature? SUMMARY ANSWER: The evidence-based guideline on UI makes 52 recommendation…
STUDY QUESTION: Is it possible to define a set of performance indicators (PIs) for clinical work in ART, which can create competency profiles for clinicians and for specific clinical process steps? SUMMARY ANSWER: The current paper recomme…
OBJECTIVE: To identify a possible marker of follicular depletion in relation to some histologic parameters of endometriotic cysts. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Operative Division of Endocrinolo…
Conclusions:The size of the 2 -5 mm follicle pool is an independent and important contributor to the FA of PCOS.This result could be explained by an exaggerated physiological inhibitory effect from this pool on the terminal follicle growth,…