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OVULATION—ITS DETECTION AND EVALUATION USING MULTIPLE CRITERIA IN THE INFERTILE WOMAN
Author(s) -
Pennington G. W.,
Beazley J. M.,
Wilson E. W.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1970.tb03582.x
Subject(s) - ovulation , pregnanediol , basal body temperature , endometrium , gynecology , menstrual cycle , infertility , curettage , medicine , basal (medicine) , excretion , hormone , physiology , andrology , obstetrics , biology , endocrinology , pregnancy , pathology , insulin , genetics
Summary Six subfertile women were each studied by basal body temperature, bi‐weekly hormone excretion assays, uterine curettage and laparoscopy, and histological and histochemical evaluation of the endometrium, during one normal menstrual cycle. The results showed little correlation between the various accepted criteria of ovulation, and in particular the histological findings and the values of oestriol and pregnanediol excretion were in direct conflict in all except one patient. The relevance of the finding of secretory activity in the endometrium is discussed and suggestions are made for the investigation of subfertile women. It is not known if these variable results are found in normally menstruating fertile women, or if the variations are directly responsible for the infertile state.