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ArticleArchives of medical science : AMS2018

Decline in ovarian reserve may be an undiagnosed reason for unexplained infertility: a cohort study.

Burak Yücel, Sefa Kelekci, Emine Demirel

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Article in Archives of medical science : AMS, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Evidence-based guideline: unexplained infertility†.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2023
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Burak YücelDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Kanuni Sultan Suleyman Research and Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Sefa KelekciDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Katip Celebi University Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.
Emine DemirelDepartment of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Katip Celebi University Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk Research and Training Hospital, Izmir, Turkey.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionUnexplained infertility refers to the absence of a definable cause for a couple's failure to achieve pregnancy. Reproductive aging plays a role in pathogenesis of unexplained infertility. We investigated the results of ovarian reserve tests in unexplained infertility. MATERIAL AND

methodsThe patients were divided into two groups: unexplained infertility (

resultsThe demographic variables were comparable. Follicle-stimulating hormone levels were higher in the unexplained infertility group than the male factor infertility group, although this difference did not reach statistical significance (

conclusionsAlthough anti-Müllerian hormone values and antral follicle count were higher than the low thresholds, a statistically significant decline of ovarian reserve in the unexplained infertility group was found in the present study. This might be an undiagnosed reason for unexplained infertility.

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anti-Müllerian hormoneinfertilityovarian reserveunexplained infertility

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PMID29765438
PMCPMC5949901

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