The study of ovarian artery hemodynamics in patients with infertility by color Doppler energy.

Seventy-four cases of infertility were examined to study the hemodynamics of the bilateral ovarian arteries at 21st day during the corpus luteum phase by color Doppler energy(CDE) and color Doppler flow imaging (CDFI). All the patients were verified by laparoscopy, fallopian tube patency examination and ovarian function test. Twenty-two healthy women served as controls. The results showed that the difference of resistance index(RI) and pulsatility index (PI) of bilateral ovarian arteries between the infertility and the normal controls had statistical significance (P < 0.01), and the PI showed negative correlation with the thickness of endometrium (left side: r = 0.724, P < 0.01; right side: r = 0.756, P < 0.01). The results also showed that CDE was more sensitive than CDFI in displaying the ovarian arteries. It could be concluded that the elevated resistance of ovarian artery during the corpus luteum phase was one of the important factors that resulted in infertility.