A total of 101 patients with one normal tube were compared with 117 patients with two normal tubes to assess the effect of unilateral tubal abnormalities on the results of intrauterine inseminations. The clinical pregnancy and live birth rates seemed to reduce by one-half in almost all types of abnormality, suggesting that these patients should be preferentially treated with IVF.
(Abstracted from Reprod Biomed Online 2017;35:314–317)
While intrauterine insemination (IUI) is one of the first lines of infertility treatments and assisted reproductive techniques, the mean delivery per insemination rate is 10.7% and varies widely from one center to another, according to the French registry. This variation could be attributed to the heterogeneity of the treated population, especially with regard to fallopian tube status.
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