title: A successful healthy live birth from a female patient with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and oocytes with unusually large cytoplasmic inclusions.
abstract: This study aimed to report the case of a successful live birth from a woman having oocytes with abnormally large cytoplasmic inclusions. The patient described in this case is a 28 year-old woman with hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) with a history of two previous unsuccessful in vitro fertilization (IVF) attempts offered an antagonist protocol. Stimulation was performed with human menopausal gonadotropin 300 IU/day. The intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) procedure was performed 4-6 hours after oocyte aspiration for all mature oocytes. Six oocytes were retrieved, five of which mature (MII). All oocytes had abnormal cytoplasmic structures. Two were fertilized after ICSI and two top quality embryos were transferred on Day 2. Our case report suggests that HH patients with refractile bodies/lipofuscin in their oocytes may not have their pregnancies negatively affected. While there have been several reports of successful births from dysmorphic oocytes, no cases of successful pregnancies followed by live births from young women with HH and oocytes with large cytoplasmic inclusions had been reported to date.
authors.affiliation: Turgut Ozal University, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Candan İltemir
authors.initials: Cİ
authors.lastname: Duvan
authors.affiliation: Turgut Ozal University, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Aslıhan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pekel
authors.affiliation: Turgut Ozal University, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ummu Gulsum
authors.initials: UG
authors.lastname: Ercan
authors.affiliation: Turgut Ozal University, School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, IVF Clinic, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Yuksel Onaran
authors.initials: YO
authors.lastname: Arıkan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D006801:Humans; D007006:Hypogonadism; D002479:Inclusion Bodies / Q000473:pathology*; D050498:Live Birth; D009865:Oocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D011247:Pregnancy
keywords: ICSI; Lipofuscin; Oocyte Cytoplasm; Refractile body