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1: Hum Reprod. 1988 Feb;3(2):231-3.Click here to read Links

Eighty consecutive cases of gamete intra-fallopian transfer.

Wong PC, Ng SC, Hamilton MP, Anandakumar C, Wong YC, Ratnam SS.

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, National University Hospital, Republic of Singapore.

Eighty patients with the main problems of unexplained infertility, oligospermia and endometriosis were treated with gamete intra-Fallopian transfer (GIFT). From 80 treatment cycles, 29 women conceived (36.3%). Of these, four were biochemical pregnancies and therefore the clinical pregnancy rate (25/80) was 31.2%. There were six sets of multiple pregnancies, a multiple pregnancy rate of 24%. Three women (12%) miscarried. The pregnancy rates in the patients with unexplained infertility, oligospermia and endometriosis were 33.3, 16.7 and 38.5%, respectively. The transfer of four oocytes appears to increase the pregnancy rate without increasing the risk of multiple pregnancy. The presence of in-vitro fertilization of excess oocytes after GIFT did not correlate with the final outcome of GIFT.

PMID: 3281968 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]