25. Beneficial effect of LH supplementation in
ART
Age
• Marrs et
al;Humaidan et
al 2004
Initial poor
responder
Follicular
stagnation
• Ferrarettti et al;
2004
Low poor
responders
• Ruvolo et al. 2007
LH POLYMORPHISIM
26. Women > 35 years:
26
The number of functional LH
receptors decreases with age
•
Vihko et al,1996
Endogenous LH may become
less potent or biologically active
•Mitchell et al, 1995
The only group to benefit from
LH supplementation with an
increase in the
number of mature eggs
collected, improved
implantation and pregnancy
rates
•Marrs et al, 2003; Humaidan et al, 2004
35. On going poor responder add lh
• BMI
• age
• afc
with optimum
dose
• AFC good
• But not many coming up
lower rate of
follicle growth
• day 6
• day 8lower e2
45. Summary
Poor responder and hypo-responder are different
•You can improve pregnancy rates
•You identify in a current cycle
•You can analyze from previous cycle