Meet Eileen Barrett, Nurse Manager, and Patricia Crummey, Senior Fertility Nurse who attended the annual INSIGHTS Fertility Nurses meeting in Birmingham this week.
The meeting gives a wonderful opportunity to fertility nurses throughout Ireland and the UK to network and discuss aspects of assisted reproduction and processes in their respective units.
New MFC research study suggests that Anti-Müllerian hormone and progesterone levels in human follicular fluid are predictors of embryonic development.
A recent study from Dr Yvonne O’ Brien, from her time with MFC, has found that AMH and progesterone levels are higher in follicular fluid surrounding oocytes that go on to become good quality blastocysts, as compared to those that do not.
This research project was carried out in collaboration with Dr Lynne O’Shea in UCD. Our findings suggest that hormone levels in follicular fluid may be used to more sensitively and accurately predict how well an embryo will develop.
We would like to thank all the MFC patients who kindly took part in this research study. This exciting development may aid us in further improving treatment outcomes in the future.
For more information, please see the link below:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31217014
Merrion Fertility Clinic are delighted to congratulate our very own clinical fellow Dr. David Crosby, who was recently awarded an M.D. from University College Dublin for his research thesis on endometrial inflammation pathways and embryo implantation in ART.
Congratulations David!
