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Maria Bustillo, MD; John E. Buster, MD; Sydlee W. Cohen, RN, MPH; Fredesminda Hamilton; Ian H. Thorneycroft, PhD, MD; James A. Simon, MD; Ingrid A. Rodi, MD; Stephen P. Boyers, MD; John R. Marshall, MD
Division of Reproductive Endocrinology Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Torrance, Calif

John A. Louw; Randolph W. Seed, MD, PhD; Richard G. Seed, PhD
Fertility and Genetics Research, Inc Chicago

JAMA. 1984;251(7):889.

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To the Editor.—

We wish to announce the birth of a healthy infant to an infertile nulligravid woman following nonsurgical recovery and transfer of an in vivo fertilized donated ovum.^1,2

The infertile recipient, a woman in her 30s with an eight-year history of infertility and multiple operations for endometriosis, experienced a spontaneous luteinizing hormone (LH) peak two days prior to the donor. The donor was a healthy, fertile woman who matched the recipient couple for blood type and Rh and hair and eye color. On the day of the LH peak, the donor was inseminated with semen from the recipient's husband. Five days later uterine lavage was performed on the donor. The recovered blastocyst was transferred to the uterus of the infertile woman. Six days later, beta human chorionic gonadotropin was detected in the recipient's serum. Thirty-three days after the transfer, pelvic ultrasound revealed a well-developed uterine sac with . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Edited by John D. Archer, MD, Senior Editor.

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