OBJECTIVE: To describe the option of ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal puncture for ovum pickup in a rare case of Rokitansky syndrome with subcostal located ovaries and a right single kidney. DESIGN: Technique and instrumentation. SETTING: A university-based hospital IVF and Reproductive Medicine Unit. PATIENT(S): A woman with congenital agenesis of the uterus in a surrogate gestation program. INTERVENTION(S): Ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal puncture for oocyte retrieval. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized. RESULT(S): Oocyte retrieval was feasible in four treatment cycles with subsequent embryo transfer to the surrogate mother. CONCLUSION(S): Ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal oocyte collection is a feasible and efficacious procedure for IVF in a case of Rokitansky syndrome with elevated subcostal ovaries and a single kidney.
OBJECTIVE: To describe the option of ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal puncture for ovum pickup in a rare case of Rokitansky syndrome with subcostal located ovaries and a right single kidney. DESIGN: Technique and instrumentation. SETTING: A university-based hospital IVF and Reproductive Medicine Unit. PATIENT(S): A woman with congenital agenesis of the uterus in a surrogate gestation program. INTERVENTION(S): Ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal puncture for oocyte retrieval. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Number of oocytes retrieved and fertilized. RESULT(S): Oocyte retrieval was feasible in four treatment cycles with subsequent embryo transfer to the surrogate mother. CONCLUSION(S): Ultrasonographic-guided percutaneous transabdominal oocyte collection is a feasible and efficacious procedure for IVF in a case of Rokitansky syndrome with elevated subcostal ovaries and a single kidney.