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Review
. 2020 Apr 17:11:192.
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2020.00192. eCollection 2020.

What Is the Best Regimen for Ovarian Stimulation of Poor Responders in ART/IVF?

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Review

What Is the Best Regimen for Ovarian Stimulation of Poor Responders in ART/IVF?

Zeev Blumenfeld. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). .

Abstract

The infertile patients with aging ovaries-also sometimes referred to as impending premature ovarian insufficiency (POI), impending premature ovarian failure (POF), or poor ovarian responders (POR), constitute a significant and increasing bulk of the patients appealing to IVF/ART. Different causes have been cited in the literature, among the identified etiologies, including chromosomal and genetic etiology, metabolic, enzymatic, iatrogenic, toxic, autoimmune, and infectious causes. Although the most successful and ultimate treatment of POI/POF/POR patients is egg donation (ED), many, if not most, of these infertile women are reluctant to consent to ED upon the initial diagnostic interview, requesting alternative solutions despite the low odds for success. Despite anecdotal case reports, no unequivocal treatment proved to be successful for these patients in prospective randomized controlled trials. Nevertheless, the addition of growth hormone (GH) to ovarian stimulation in POR with GH deficiency may improve the results of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) and the IVF success. In patients with autoimmune etiology for POR/POI, the combination of glucocorticosteroids, pituitary-ovarian suppression, and COH may be successful in achieving the desired conception.

Keywords: COH; IVF/ART; POF; POI; poor responders.

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