Results
In the present study, 17 infertile women who were treated with ART at
the fertility center between 1 and 11 March 2020 were contacted and all
agreed to be included to the study. All of the treatments for the
patients were initiated before the declaration of the Covid-19 outbreak.
New cycles had not been initiated due to the recommendations of the
international and national societies. The mean age of the patients was
34.35±4.24 (minimum 26; maximum 41) years old and the duration of
infertility was 6.41±5.27 (minimum 1; maximum 18) years. The mean time
of interview after the end of ART was 46.7±18.3 days. As seen in Table
1; ovarian stimulation, oocyte pick-up, and intracytoplasmic sperm
injection (ICSI) were used for all patients. Embryo transfer was
performed on 9 (52.9%) patients and clinical pregnancy was detected in
4 of the 9 patients after the ART procedure. At the time of the
interview, none of the infertile women had any symptoms of COVID-19,
such as fever, cough, headache, myalgia, fatigue, sore throat, diarrhea,
acute loss of smell or taste , or a confirmed diagnosis from a positive
test result for COVID-19 nucleic acids by real-time fluorescence reverse
transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). No statistical
analysis methods could be performed because a suspected or diagnosed
COVID-19 case was not detected in the study group.