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: Received: 26 September 2020 / Approved: 26 September 2020 / Online: 26 September 2020 (16:39:39 CEST)
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Yang, S.Y.; Lee, S.H.; Chon, S. The Effect of Hysteroscopy on the Reproductive Outcomes of Infertile Women Without Intrauterine Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints2020, 2020090649. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0649.v1
Yang, S.Y.; Lee, S.H.; Chon, S. The Effect of Hysteroscopy on the Reproductive Outcomes of Infertile Women Without Intrauterine Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints 2020, 2020090649. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0649.v1
Yang, S.Y.; Lee, S.H.; Chon, S. The Effect of Hysteroscopy on the Reproductive Outcomes of Infertile Women Without Intrauterine Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints2020, 2020090649. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0649.v1
APA Style
Yang, S.Y., Lee, S.H., & Chon, S. (2020). The Effect of Hysteroscopy on the Reproductive Outcomes of Infertile Women Without Intrauterine Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0649.v1
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Yang, S.Y., Seon Heui Lee and Seung-Joo Chon. 2020 "The Effect of Hysteroscopy on the Reproductive Outcomes of Infertile Women Without Intrauterine Pathologies: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202009.0649.v1
Abstract
(1) Background: The aim of this work was to systematically review existing studies on whether hysteroscopy improves the reproductive outcomes of women with infertility even in the absence of intrauterine pathologies when compared to women who did not receive a hysteroscopy. (2) Methods: We established the Participant-Intervention-Comparison-Outcome strategy and used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement to conduct a systematic review of 11 studies which were retrieved from 3 electronic databases: Ovid-Medline, Ovid-Embase, and the Cochrane Library. Two independent investigators extracted the data from the included studies and used the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool to assess their quality. (3) Results: The primary outcome measures were the clinical pregnancy rates (CPRs) and live birth rates (LBRs) in the in vitro fertilization (IVF)/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) cycles. Hysteroscopy in infertile women without intrauterine pathologies showed higher CPRs and LBRs than those in the same population who did not receive hysteroscopy in cases of recurrent implantation failure and IVF (odds ratio: 1.79 and 1.46, 95% confidence interval: 1.46-2.30 and 1.08-1.97 for CPR and LBR, respectively); however, the degree of significance was not as high for LBR. (4) Conclusions: Hysteroscopy before IVF/ICSI in infertile women without intrauterine pathologies may potentially be effective in improving the CPRs and LBRs in patients with RIF. Robust and high-quality randomized trials are warranted to confirm this finding.
Keywords
Infertile women; Hysteroscopy; Clinical pregnancy rate; Live birth rate; No Intrauterine pathology; endometrial stimulation; Systematic review
Subject
Medicine and Pharmacology, Immunology and Allergy
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