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Study Finds Most Women Getting Wrong Dose of Fertility Drugs
This, the researchers state, not only means that the drugs may not work properly, but also that they may be exposing women to a greater risk of side effects.
During each menstrual cycle, women usually release one egg. The number is however increased during IVF, by giving them drugs. The eggs are then collected surgically.
Geoffrey Trew of Hammersmith Hospital in London and his colleagues used a "dose calculator" to check the dose given to a woman according to her age, body mass index, the estimated number of eggs left in her ovaries, and levels of a hormone called FSH that triggers egg development.
They used the calculator to check the dosage given to 161, and found that 75 per cent were being given a higher dose than required, while 15 percent were being given a lower dose of the infertility drugs.
When 113 of the women were then given the right dose, an average of 10 eggs were harvested.
"That is the ideal number of eggs you would be looking for," the New Scientist quoted Trew, as saying.
The findings of the study were presented at a meeting of the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Lyon, France, last week.
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Mealnie(Guest)
12/29/2009
I had a Laparoscopy under taken by Dr GT back in Sept 05, and was under his care as a private patient. Within hours after the Lap I was in extreme pain and sick,with raised temperature and CRP levels, for which he advised to take good care of myself as I was only a day patient. After 10 days in the care of Dr GT, SL and RM, who work from Harley Street, London, and a famous fertility Clinic, I was left in Intensive Care for 4 weeks with a 80% mortality rate, on Life Suport with multiple Organ Failure, then transferred to Torbay Hospital for 360 days as an inpatient spending 400 Days in total in the hospital and discharged as Disabled. I was 33 years old when this happened. M.Cox Devon.
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