New article about fibroid and IVF w/ICSI success rates

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Here's a brand new article about success rates of IVF w/ICSI (in

vitro fertilization where they inject the sperm into the egg --

useful for when there are problems with the sperm) for women with

fibroids compared with a control group.

They concluded that patients with subserosal or intramural fibroid/s

is less than or equal to 4cm (regardless of location)-- and not

encroaching on the uterine cavity -- then the success rate (and

miscarriage rate) was comparable to the control group of women with

no fibroids. They recommend that women with fibroids greater than 4cm

undergo treatment (myo I assume) since there was a lower success

rate -- although they didn't cite what that rate was.

Impact of subserosal and intramural uterine fibroids that do not

distort the endometrial cavity on

the outcome of in vitro fertilization-intracytoplasmic sperm

injection,

Fertility and Sterility, Volume 81, Issue 3, Pages 582-587 (March

2004)

Flávio Oliveira , Vicente G. Abdelmassih , P.

Diamond , Dimitri Dozortsev , Nilson

R. Melo and Abdelmassih

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?

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--Ann