Deficiencies in reporting results of lesbians and gays after donor intrauterine insemination and assisted reproductive technology treatments: a review of the first emerging studies

Table 2 Success percentages of gays entering into gestational-surrogacy programs

Treatment	Outcome	Pair-bonded gays/single men	Heterosexual couples	“Failed to carry” heterosexual couples^a	“Cannot carry pregnancy” hererosexual couples^b	P value	Reference
Gestational-surrogacy program	Delivery per surrogate woman after a maximum of either two fresh cycles or one fresh and one frozen transfer cycle	55.6 (25/45)^c	48.9 (23/47)			0.525^d	Grover et al. [21]
	Pregnancy per cycle^f	59.7 (37/62)		50.0 (66/132)	54.0 (75/139)	0.447^e	Dar et al. [22]
	Miscarriage per pregnant surrogate woman	10.8 (4/37)		25.8 (17/66)	20.0 % (15/75)	0.193^e	Dar et al. [22]

^a96 patients suffering from recurrent implantation failure (n = 57), recurrent pregnancy loss (n = 30) and previous poor pregnancy outcome (n = 9)
^b108 patients suffering from uterine malformations/Asherman’s syndrome (n = 34), Müllerian agenesis (Mayer–Rokitansky–Kuster–Hauser syndrome; n = 33) and maternal medical conditions precluding pregnancy (n = 41)
^cCounts used to calculate percentages are shown in parentheses
^d2 × 2 contingency Pearson’s chi-square test
^e3 × 2 contingency Pearson’s chi-square test
^fA cycle was defined as one stimulation cycle with fresh transfer and any subsequent frozen embryo transfer from the same cycle

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