Menstrual cycle changes during consecutive artificial insemination therapy and their treatment
Katzorke, T.; Propping, D.; Tauber, P.F.
Fortschritte der Medizin 99(13): 471-474
1981
ISSN/ISBN: 0015-8178 PMID: 7014401 Document Number: 179844
Emotional stress-induced problems generated by the application of artificial insemination therapy by donor (AID) are considerable. After 6 months of frustrane insemination treatment, 54% of the women exhibited irregular or anovulatory cycles. Especially the persistent late ovulation often leads to a failure of the mechanisms of conception. An early ovulation timing with high dosages of synthetic LH-releasing hormone or a stimulating LH-RH-analogue (HOE 766) lead to an increasing pregnancy rate after application in the third insemination cycle from 34,0% untreated to 51,1% treated. The early application of ovulation inducing or timing substances is underlined in a program of artificial insemination therapy to eliminate possible stress-induced failures at an early point of treatment. As the spontaneous pregnancy rate is high in the first treatment cycles, LH-RH or its analogue should be administered after two frustrane insemination cycles.