TSRM 2010 Meeting, Antalya, 10/2010

The meeting of the Turkish Society of Reproductive Medicine took place in Antalya. It reviewed and discussed all the contested topics in reproductive medicine, alongside new and future developments.

Invited lectures:

The role of progesterone levels in antagonist cycles

Elevated progesterone is a frequent finding in cycles in which many oocytes are retrieved and oestradiol levels are high. In such cases, the pregnancy rate is reduced by approximately 9% compared with cycles in which progesterone is normal. To preserve the chance of pregnancy intact, the couple should not proceed to fresh embryo transfer; instead, all embryos should be frozen and transferred in a subsequent natural cycle.

The systematic management of poor ovarian response in IVF.

Managing poor ovarian response is one of the largest problems in ovarian stimulation for IVF. However, the difficulties of defining poor response, of designing adequate studies and of recruiting sufficient patients often produce confusion about the efficacy of any given treatment — among specialists, and even more so among patients. The lecture took an approach grounded only in robust evidence, where it exists.