Authors: Marrco Melo, Marcos Meseguer, José Bellver, José Remohí, Antonio Pellicer, Nicolás Garrido (Fertility and Sterility 2008; 89: 141-150) OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the embryo quality in our program for HIV-1 serodiscordant couples (SDC) with the male infected in comparison with a tubal infertility control group. DESIGN: Retrospective case-control study. SETTING: Instituto Universitario IVI, Valencia, Spain […]

Authors: Erdal Budak, Nicolas Garrido, Sérgio Reis-Soares, Marco Melo, Marcos Meseguer, Antonio Pellicer, José Remohí (Fertility and Sterility 2007; 88: 342-349) Objective: To compare cycle outcome parameters and cumulative pregnancy rates (CPR) in oocyte donation cycles over a period of 10 years. Design: Retrospective study from a computer database. Oocyte donation cycles with embryo transfer […]

Authors: José Bellver, Marco Melo, Ernesto Bosch, Vicente Serra, José Remohí, Antonio Pellicer (Fertility and Sterility 2007; 88: 446-451) OBJECTIVE: We have performed this study to analyze the potential role of extra-ovarian factors, like endometrium, in the reproductive outcome of obese patients. DESIGN: Retrospective study. SETTING: Instituto Universitario IVI, Valencia, Spain. PATIENTS: All first cycles […]

Authors: Nicolás Garrido, Marco Melo, Carlos Simón, José Remohí, Antonio Pellicer, Marcos Meseguer (Reproductive Medicine and Biology 2007; 6: 19-26) Our aim with this work was to identify the risk factors, their prognostic value on multiple pregnancies (MP) prediction and their thresholds in women undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) with FSH and intrauterine insemination (IUI). […]

Authors: Cristiano E. Busso, Marco Melo, Manuel Fernadez, Carlos Simon (International Surgery 2006; 91(Suppl.5) S63-76) The recent advances in assisted reproduction have made possible to study and interfere in almost every step of the human reproductive process except for implantation. However, the most complex and important step remains in great part unknown. Implantation in human […]

Authors: Marco Melo, Marcos Meseguer, Nicolas Garrido, Ernesto Bosch, Antonio Pellicer, José Remohí (Human Reproduction 2006; 21(6): 1503-1507) BACKGROUND: Several evidences indicate that premature luteinization (PL) may affect IVF outcome. The primary end-point of the present study was to verify the effect of PL on the PR of our oocyte donation programme. METHODS: PL was […]