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Effect of Adding L-Carnitine to Clomiphene Resistant PCOs Women on the Ovulation and the Pregnancy Rate

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Last updated: 03 Jan 2025

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Background: polycystic ovary (PCO) syndrome is an endocrionologic disorder that affecting about 6-10% of women in their reproductive age. Conception rate with clomiphene citrate treated cycles is about 40% only and the number of ovulated oocyte decrease significantly with repeated cycles of ovulation. Objective: evaluation of the effectiveness of usage of clomiphene citrate with L-carnitine (LC) in induction of ovulation in clomiphene citrate resistant patients. Patients and Methods: Randomized controlled study included a total number of 50 women with clomiphene-resistant PCOs. They were divided into 2 groups, group (A) where patients received 100 to 150 mg clomiphene citrate from day three until day seven of the cycle and L-carnitine (LC) 3g daily till positive pregnancy test and group (B) received 100 to 150 mg clomiphene citrate with placebo. Results: There was statistically significant difference (p-value <0.05) between both groups as regard infertility duration (months), ovulation rate, no. of chemical pregnancies and no. of clinical pregnancies. There was highly statistically significant difference (p-value < 0.001) between both groups as regard days until HCG injection, endometrial thickness (mm), no. of pre-ovulatory follicles >17 mm and E2 on day of HCG injection. Conclusion: Adding L-carnitine to clomiphene from the follicular phase and extending through the luteal phase in patients with clomiphene-resistant PCOS, at the given dose and duration, may be of beneficial to the quality of ovulation and the clinical pregnancy rate.

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10.21608/ejhm.2019.43079

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L-carnitine, clomiphene-resistant, PCOs, Pregnancy

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Ahmed Taha

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Abd-Elfattah

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Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Fahd Abd El-aal

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Elomda

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Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Mahmoud Abd-Ellatif

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Hashish

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Departments of Clinical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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Hossam Ibrahim

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Megahed

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Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Faculty of Medicine, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt

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76

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5

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6642

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2019-07-01

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2019-07-30

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2019-07-01

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4,138

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4,143

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1687-2002

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2090-7125

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The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine

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Effect of Adding L-Carnitine to Clomiphene Resistant PCOs Women on the Ovulation and the Pregnancy Rate

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22 Jan 2023