Sign up for info on our next webinar in Jan. Low AMH? Don't Give Up! Low AMH does not mean there is no hope. Spontaneous pregnancies and high-frequency intercourse as good medicine Marina and her husband tried in vitro fertilization IVF , but it did not work.
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Once we have an idea about your egg reserve, we can formulate a plan of treatment. Treatment will depend on how low the egg reserve is. IVF medications would allow the current pool of eggs to become mature but not much else and no additional eggs can be recruited by use of higher doses of medications.
For patients with very low ovarian reserve, the Mini IVF protocol can offer a chance to undergo IVF treatment without the excessive medication cost. Many patients with very low egg reserve have had successful pregnancies using the Mini IVF cycle. Nevertheless, if your ovaries can only provide eggs a cycle, you might consider limiting your treatment to ovulation induction with intrauterine insemination.
Remember that you only need one good egg to become pregnant and with proper intervention you could be hearing the pitter patter of little feet in the not so distant future. Low Ovarian Reserve. Low Ovarian Reserve: What to Do? The questions we must ask are how low is the egg reserve and what can be done about it?
How do I know how many eggs I have? Antimullerian hormone AMH AMH is produced by the very young follicles of future cycles and is another excellent indicator of egg reserve. What is the best treatment for low ovarian reserve? The study outcome was to compare the live birth rate in the different age groups according to the AMH level. Comparison of numerical variables between the study groups was done using the Student t test for independent samples in comparing two groups of normally distributed data and the Mann-Whitney U test for independent samples for comparing not normal data.
The exact test was used instead when the expected frequency is less than 5. P values less than 0. There was no significant difference in mean age between groups A and B Table 1. The mean level of AMH in group A 0. In group A, the mean number of oocytes retrieved was 5. The number of women who did not retrieve oocytes was 7 in group A and 1 in group B. The number of patients who achieved embryo transfer was The clinical pregnancy rate and the live birth rate per started cycle were There was no significant difference in clinical and live birth rates between patients with AMH levels below 0.
The difference was not significant Table 2. The mean number of oocytes retrieved, mean number of cleaved embryos, number of patients who had embryo transfer, and number of patients with total failure of fertilization in groups A and B in all age subgroups are presented in Table 3. Comparing an age-matched group of women with normal AMH level to the study group, the mean clinical and live birth rates were significantly higher in women with normal AMH. However, there was no significant difference in clinical or live birth rates between the low and the extremely low AMH, in the same age group.
Based on this study, the age becomes the crucial factor during counseling. Even one or two oocytes can result in a reasonable pregnancy rate in this group of young women.
AMH has been gaining popularity as its intra-cycle stability makes it a more convenient tool [ 7 , 8 ]. Evidence is accumulating suggesting that AMH is the best currently available test in terms of sensitivity and specificity.
However, it should be combined with age, to allow for a better assessment of the fertility potential of a given woman [ 9 ]. The immediate clinical implication of the present finding is that AMH combined with age provides strong information for couples considering assisted reproduction.
However, its diagnostic accuracy in live birth alone is poor and could not be used to alter clinical decisions. Adoption of an AMH threshold for access to assisted reproduction was not possible in our study as the live birth rate in the same age group did not differ between low and very low AMH levels. It was reported in a study with women and embryos with extremely low AMH levels below 0. In another study, the chance of pregnancy and the number of obtained embryos, high-quality embryos, and transferred embryos were positively correlated with the level of AMH.
Therefore, it might be argued that the correlation between AMH and pregnancy depends on the number of obtained oocytes and embryos available for transfer, rather than embryo quality. So, although AMH levels might compromise pregnancy outcomes, lower levels of AMH do not impair the embryo developmental competence [ 11 ]. A study of women with extremely low AMH concentrations below 0. Counseling women with extremely low AMH concentrations can be difficult, because the predictive value for AMH concentrations is not absolute; its false-positive rate may have previously prohibited women from entering an IVF program [ 12 ].
In the prediction of a live birth following IVF, a distinction, however moderate, can be made between couples with a good and a poor prognosis. The success of IVF was found to mainly depend on maternal age and serum AMH concentrations, one of the most relevant and valuable markers of ovarian reserve [ 13 ].
These results enable couples to face real expectations in their particular scenario [ 14 ]. Very low AMH levels are associated with a relevant risk of cycle cancelation but should not be considered a reason to exclude a couple from IVF [ 15 ].
In young patients with low AMH levels who have good quality embryos, AMH is not associated with clinical pregnancy, spontaneous miscarriage, or live birth rates [ 16 ].
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