A research report submitted to the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Medicine in the branch of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Johannesburg, 2017 / Background
Recurrent IVF failures may result from implantation defects of which a thin endometrium is often implicated. Studies show that improved endometrial thickness increases the probability of successful IVF.
Objectives
To evaluate the effects of transcervical instillation of G-CSF as an adjunct to IVF. The study looked at the influence of G-CSF on the endometrium and on the achievement of pregnancy.
Methods
A retrospective cross-sectional study of women attending Bio ART Fertility Centre, who had two or more failed IVFs previously.
Results
There were a total of 49 women studied with a mean age of 38.9. Mean number of previous IVFs were 3.1. Comparison between those that achieved pregnancy and those that did not showed that age was a statistically significant factor (p-value 0.0005). Mean endometrial thickness pre and post-GCSF between the groups was not statistically significant (p-values >0.05).
Conclusion
With the use of G-CSF we achieved a clinical pregnancy rate of 34.69% and a statistically significant overall expansion of endometrial thickness (p-value 0.0029). However we failed to show any association between endometrial expansion and pregnancy outcome. / MT 2018
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/25821 |
| Date | January 2017 |
| Creators | Mohamed, Tasneem |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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