title: Women with one ovary in assisted reproduction technologies: a review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  A number of patients who have undergone assisted reproductive technology (ART) have only one ovary.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article reviews the clinical implications of the absence of an ovary on the reproductive potential and the outcome in ART cycle.
  
  
  METHODS
  MEDLINE, Pubmed, the Cochrane Controlled Trials Register, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews from the 1980s through April 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  Randomized, controlled trials; systematic reviews of trials; and observational studies; all restricted to English-language articles.
  
  
  RESULTS
  This review includes 58 articles. Women with a single ovary did not, in general, respond as well to ovulation induction treatment than women with two ovaries in ART cycles. It appears however, that once women with a single ovary achieve the stage of embryo transfer, they can be reassured that their chances of having a child are the same as women with two ovaries. Whether the right or left ovary responds better to superovulation is a question which remains unanswered in the literature.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The authors could not address all management questions, and excluded non-English-language literature.
authors: Laboratory of Reproductive Physiology, University of Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
authors: Sofia
authors: S
authors: Bouchlariotou
authors: Bouchlariotou
authors: B
authors: Sofia
authors: Panagiotis
authors: P
authors: Tsikouras
authors: Tsikouras
authors: T
authors: Panagiotis
authors: Beniamin
authors: B
authors: Rösing
authors: Rösing
authors: R
authors: Beniamin
authors: Josef
authors: J
authors: Neulen
authors: Neulen
authors: N
authors: Josef
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010052:Ovariectomy; D010053:Ovary / Q000502:physiology; D010060:Ovulation; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; D016896:Treatment Outcome