title: Effect of inner myometrium fibroid on reproductive outcome after IVF.
abstract: To evaluate the influence of inner myometrium fibroids (myomas) on the outcome of IVF cycles, a retrospective agematched controlled study was performed at SISMeR Reproductive Medicine Unit. The study group included 129 IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection cycles in 75 patients with one or more intramural and/or submucosal fibroids, while the control group consisted of 129 cycles in 127 patients without fibroids. The two groups were similar for mean oestradiol concentration at human chorionic gonadotrophin administration (1205.16 +/- 874 versus 1395 +/- 821 pg/ml), mean number of transferred embryos (2.02 +/- 0.4 versus 2.14 +/- 0.6) and clinical pregnancy rate (34.9 versus 41.1%). Conversely, the implantation rate was significantly lower in the study group (18.0%) than in the control group (26.5%; chi(2) = 4.81, P < 0.05), whereas the rate of spontaneous abortion demonstrated an opposite trend (40 versus 18.9%; chi(2) = 4.34, P < 0.05). Further research should be aimed at classifying fibroids on the basis of their location, especially when they are positioned in the junctional zone of the myometrium. Whether this classification will be superior in predicting the impact of fibroids on the reproductive outcome should be elaborated in a large multicentric study.
authors.affiliation: SISMeR Reproductive Medicine Unit, Via Mazzini, 12 40138 Bologna, Italy.
authors.forename: Luca
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Gianaroli
authors.forename: Stephan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gordts
authors.forename: Arianna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: D'Angelo
authors.forename: M Cristina
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Magli
authors.forename: Ivo
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Brosens
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Cetera
authors.forename: Rudi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Campo
authors.forename: Anna Pia
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Ferraretti
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous / Q000453:epidemiology; D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D010064:Embryo Implantation; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009215:Myometrium; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018873:Pregnancy Rate; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000503:physiopathology*