title: Successful pregnancy in a liver transplant recipient following controlled ovarian hyperstimulation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
abstract: As the demand for assisted reproductive technologies (ART) increases, infertility treatments are increasingly being sought by patients with serious health problems that were once regarded as leading to infertility. Moreover, since pregnancy may worsen their underlying health conditions, these women have been advised to remain infertile. We describe here a liver transplant recipient who underwent ART for male factor infertility. Assisted fertilization was achieved using intracytoplasmic sperm injection, and she conceived after embryo transfer. Her pregnancy follow-up was unremarkable until she delivered a healthy boy pretermly at 31 and half weeks.
authors.affiliation: Bahceci Women Health Care Center and German Hospital at Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ulun
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ulug
authors.forename: Ali
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mesut
authors.forename: Esra Aksoy
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Jozwiak
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bahceci
mesh_terms: D004624:Embryo Transfer; D005260:Female; D019693:Hepatitis, Autoimmune / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D010062:Ovulation Induction / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic