title: Negligible serum anti-müllerian hormone: pregnancy and birth after a 1-month course of an oral contraceptive, ovarian hyperstimulation, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe a patient with isolated negligible (<0.5 ng/mL or <3.6 pmol/L) anti-müllerian hormone (AMH) levels who underwent intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for severe oligoasthenoteratozoospermia, displayed ovarian hyperstimulation after a 1-month course of an oral contraceptive (OC), had a singleton pregnancy and delivered a healthy boy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  METHODS
  Reproductive center at a private hospital.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 34-year-old woman with isolated negligible (<0.5 ng/mL or <3.6 pmol/L) AMH level and poor response to controlled ovarian hyperstimulation (COH) and her 38-year-old partner with severe oligoasthenoteratozoospermia.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 1-month course of an OC, modified minimal stimulation cycle with recombinant FSH, antagonist (cetrorelix) administration to inhibit LH surge, triggered ovulation using 10,000 U of hCG and ICSI.
  
  
  METHODS
  Level of AMH, pregnancy, and birth.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three high quality embryos were obtained and transferred 48 hours after ICSI. Transvaginal ultrasound at 8 weeks' gestation showed a vital singleton pregnancy. The pregnancy continued uncomplicated. The patient gave birth to a healthy boy, weighing 3,280 g, by caesarean section at 39 weeks' gestation.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Ovarian hyperstimulation, pregnancy, and birth may occur after a short course of an OC and ICSI in poor responder, normogonadotropic, regularly menstruating young women with isolated negligible AMH.
authors.affiliation: European Hospital, Reproductive Medicine Unit, Via Portuense 70, Rome, Italy. info@donnamed.it
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tocci
authors.forename: Susanna
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ferrero
authors.forename: Marcello
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Iacobelli
authors.forename: Ermanno
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Greco
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone / Q000097:blood* / Q000172:deficiency; D002585:Cesarean Section; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D004958:Estradiol / Q000097:blood; D005260:Female; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone / Q000097:blood; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007621:Karyotyping; D050498:Live Birth; D008297:Male; D010062:Ovulation Induction / Q000379:methods*; D011247:Pregnancy; D020554:Sperm Injections, Intracytoplasmic
chemical_list: D004958:Estradiol; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone; D005640:Follicle Stimulating Hormone