Howard Harrell

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Thinking About Ob/Gyn · Episode 12.1 IVF Add-Ons and More! · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

A lot of quality studies showing no benefit.

And so if anyone's wondering, what is even the idea here?

Steroids, the idea is to reduce inflammation.

Which is interesting because the embryo scratching is done to cause inflammation.

But maybe at different times and maybe it's like what if this

What if it's r steroids for someone with recurrent loss and there's s suspicion for autoimmune or something?

So maybe maybe vi it's targeted for different people at different times.

Then the embryo glue, it's just a different type of transfer medium.

It has hyaluronic acid, which I'm sure most people have heard of with cosmetics and skin creams.

And the thought is that somehow that is important for embryo implantation.

And of course that's not proven.

The endometrial testing is a biopsy of the endometrium that assesses gene expression patterns.

And then based on the results, the embryo transfer

then is recommended to be either earlier or later than standard timing.

But that has no imp no proven impact either.

And then of course the PGT

A the idea there is that if you test embryos and find out that some of them are aneuploid, that

You wouldn't transfer those because you'd worry about lower live birth rates, like higher rate of miscarriage.

So in theory

The theory of those

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