Hormone levels of follicular fluids with and without oocytes in patients who received gonadotropin-releasing hormone analogues and gonadotropins in an in vitro fertilization program |
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| Authors: | Iphigenia Phocas Themis Mantzavinos Dimitris Rizos Fotini Dimitriadou Katerina Arvaniti Pantelis A. Zourlas |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece;(2) Euromedica Institute of High Technology, Athens, Greece;(3) Hormonological Laboratory, Second Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Athens, Areteion University Hospital, 76, Vas. Sophias Ave., GR-115 28 Athens, Greece |
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| Abstract: | Background Are follicles where no oocytes are retrieved  empty follicles ?Methods The levels of estradiol (E2), progesterone (P), testosterone (T), cortisol (F), and prolactin (PRL) of follicular fluids (FF) aspirated individually from 34 randomly selected IVF patients in whom no oocytes were recovered were compared with the respective hormone levels of FF obtained from the same patients when oocytes were retrieved. Two FF without oocytes of a 35th patient in whom no oocytes were retrieved were analyzed.Results Hormones did not differ significantly in the paired samples, while in the two FF of the 35th woman they were in agreement with cystic follicles.Conclusions It is necessary to differentiate aspirated follicles where no oocytes are retrieved from the empty follicle syndrome, which was not observed in the IVF series studied and should be rare in IVF patients. |
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| Keywords: | steroid hormones prolactin follicular fluid with/without oocytes empty follicle |
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