John McBain

ORCID: 0000-0002-8677-794X · 3 papers in corpus
observational 2025
BMC medicine ·doi:10.1186/s12916-025-03963-w

BACKGROUND: Use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) continues to increase as the most common mode of oocyte insemination during in vitro fertilisation (IVF), sometimes in the absence of clear indications (i.e. male factor infertility…

rct 2014
The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/ajo.12168

BACKGROUND: The cause of infertility is unexplained or poorly explained in 30-40% of couples undergoing standard investigations, and treatment ranges from expectant management to IUI and IVF. AIMS: The aim of this study was to compare the …

review 1985
British journal of obstetrics and gynaecology ·doi:10.1111/j.1471-0528.1985.tb01394.x

When investigations fail to reveal a cause for infertility, treatment must then be based on possible, but unproven, causes, and since there is a high spontaneous pregnancy rate in unexplained infertility the effect of any treatment is diffi…