Year: 2025 | Month: October-December | Volume: 10 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 153-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijhsr.20250418
Intrauterine Insemination: A Retrospective Review on Outcome and Predictors of Success
Vedavathy Nayak1, Kusuma Naik MV2, Sujatha Prabhu2
1Dept. of OBG, ESICH, Peenya. 2Dept of OBG, ESICH, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India
Corresponding Author: Vedavathy Nayak
ABSTRACT
Aims & Objectives: To assess the outcome of IUI among infertile couples seeking care at a tertiary hospital and to identify the predicting factors that can influence the IUI outcome.
Materials and Methods: This record based cross sectional analytical study was conducted in the Department of OBG, ESIC Medical College, PGIMSR and Model Hospital, Rajajinagar, Bengaluru. For the retrospective study data was collected from the registers maintained in the Department of OBG. A total of 114 patients undergoing 145 stimulated cycles between January 2018 and December 2021 were studied.
Results: There were overall 22 pregnancies. The clinical pregnancy rate per cycle was 15.2%. The pregnancy rate per couple was 19.3%. Of these 15 pregnancies resulted in live births (68.2%), 3 (13.6%) resulted in miscarriage, 2 (9%) pregnancies were biochemical and 1 (4.5%) was ectopic pregnancy. There was one quadruplet pregnancy.
Conclusion: There was a trend towards decreasing pregnancy rates as age of the woman increased and as the duration of infertility increased. Also, pregnancy rates were higher in women who had >/= 3 or more follicles. Careful patient selection criteria along with successful ovarian stimulation enhances the treatment outcome.
Keywords: Intrauterine insemination, pregnancy rate, infertility, predictive factors