It is a very important question from the patient’s perspective whether she has to go for simple treatments or the higher level of treatments. IVF would be more beneficial in these segmen of patients. Only because of the effectiveness of the treatment. Also we will be able to see the quality of the eggs in this treatment and help them finalize and make the embryos and chose the good quality embryos and put them back into the uterus thereby enhancing the fertility rated in these women. Not necessary that IUI might not help these patients but the success rates for IUI for these patients could be very low and if you keep trying IUI’s in these patients for a longer duration of time, that is for more than 6 months to 1 year, we could also land up in a situation where whatever number of eggs were present a couple of months back could also be exhausted and the patient might not have any eggs or follicles left for recruitment in the IF treatment. So precisely for this reason, I would suggest that IVF would be a better option for poor ovarian reserve patient in terms of their fertility chances.
