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When should fertility treatment success rates influence which fertility treatment to use?
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Dr. Simon Kipersztok, Shady Grove Fertility: Authorities have determined that a success rate of 5 percent or less signifies poor prognosis.
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And a success rate of 1 percent or less is consistent with a futile attempt.
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So, some practitioners have taken that recommendation by authorities to mean that if the probability of success with any given intervention
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is less than 5 percent but higher than 1 percent, you may want to try it for one or two cycles, OK?
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But the outlook is very poor in terms of the outcome that you are looking for.
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In contrast, if, for example, there is a situation of a woman who is 42 years of age, with one blocked tube and abnormal sperm,
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doing an IUI, in my opinion, under those circumstances, would yield a probability of conception that is 1 percent or less,
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making it a futile attempt.
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And I feel that it's important for patients to consider that information when making that decision,
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because in this particular situation of the 42-year-old woman, when the probability is in the 1 percent range, time is lapsing,
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and their ovarian reserve is getting poorer and poorer with time.
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So, they are missing that window because of misinformation about the potential success rates of intrauterine inseminations.
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