ArticleFacts, views & vision in ObGyn2016
Outcome of one hundred consecutive ICSI attempts using patient operated home sonography for monitoring follicular growth.
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- Monitoring Ovarian Stimulation for Assisted Reproduction With Patient Self-Scans Using a Home Vaginal Ultrasound Device: A Single-Center Interventional, Prospective Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Self-Monitoring of Urinary Hormones in Combination with Telemedicine - a Timely Review and Opinion Piece in Medically Assisted Reproduction.Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2022Review
- Streamlining follicular monitoring during controlled ovarian stimulation: a data-driven approach to efficient IVF care in the new era of social distancing.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Correlation between sonographic follow-up of follicular growth, serum and salivary estradiol in women undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation (IVF/ICSI).Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2018Article
- Correlation between follicle dimensions recorded by patients at home (SOET) versus ultrasound performed by professional care providers.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2017Article
- Patients' ideas, expectations and experience with self operated endovaginal telemonitoring: a prospective pilot study.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2017Article
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Abstract
objectivecohort study describing clinical and laboratory outcomes in ICSI patients using self-operated endovaginal tele-monitoring (SOET).
settingUniversity department of reproductive medicine. PATIENTS: 78 patients undergoing 100 consecutive ICSI attempts.
interventionspatients' recorded vaginal sonograms and sent recordings using the cloud based Sonaura device to the care provider who procured responses, avoiding hospital visits.
main outcome measuresNumber of cycles without hospital visit, laboratory and clinical variables, transportation avoided.
resultsIn 100 attempts, only one patient missed her follicles, 9 hospital visits occurred for circumstantial reasons and 90 attempts were completed without any hospital visit between initiation and puncture. Mean number ± 2SD was for oocytes 11.7±6.6, metaphase-II oocytes 8.5±5.4, 2PN zygotes 5.5±3.7, good day-5 blastocysts 2.4±2.4, embryos transferred 1.0±0.7 and embryos frozen 1.3±2.2. Percentages of total (+HCG), clinical (cardiac activity) and on-going pregnancies (>20 weeks) were 40%, 35% and 29% per started cycle and 48.8%, 42.7% and 35.4% per embryo transfer.
conclusionsUsing SOET, 90% of ICSI (and IVF) patients can avoid visits to care providers for making sonograms. Results were similar as in patients with a similar profile using traditional monitoring. In appropriate patients, SOET is an efficient, safe and patient-friendly alternative for ovarian stimulation monitoring in IVF/ICSI programmes.
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