Semin Reprod Med 2024; 42(01): 025-033
DOI: 10.1055/s-0044-1787273
Review Article

Anti-Mullerian Hormone Assessment in Assisted Reproductive Technique Outcome and Natural Conception

Autoren

  • Inès Sellami*

    1   Service de Médecine de la Reproduction et Préservation de la Fertilité, APHP-Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France
  • Anne Laure Barbotin*

    2   CHU Lille, Service de Biologie de la Reproduction, Université de Lille, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France
    3   CHU Lille, Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg, Université de Lille, Lille Cedex, France
  • Valérie Bernard

    4   Service de Gynécologie et Médecine de la Reproduction, Centre Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Bordeaux University Hospital, Bordeaux, France
    5   University Bordeaux, Bordeaux Institute in Oncology-BRIC-BioGo Team, INSERM U1312, Bordeaux, France
  • Geoffroy Robin

    3   CHU Lille, Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg, Université de Lille, Lille Cedex, France
    6   CHU Lille, Service Assistance Médicale à la Procréation et Préservation de la Fertilité - Service de Gynécologie Médicale, Orthogénie et Sexologie, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France
  • Sophie Catteau-Jonard

    3   CHU Lille, Faculté de Médecine Henri Warembourg, Université de Lille, Lille Cedex, France
    6   CHU Lille, Service Assistance Médicale à la Procréation et Préservation de la Fertilité - Service de Gynécologie Médicale, Orthogénie et Sexologie, Hôpital Jeanne de Flandre, Lille, France
  • Charlotte Sonigo*

    1   Service de Médecine de la Reproduction et Préservation de la Fertilité, APHP-Université Paris-Saclay, Hôpital Antoine Béclère, Clamart, France
    7   Université Paris Saclay, Inserm, Physiologie et Physiopathologie Endocrinienne, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
  • Maeliss Peigné*

    8   Service de Médecine de la Reproduction et Préservation de la Fertilité, AP-HP-Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Hôpital Jean Verdier, Bondy, France

Abstract

In recent years, the prevalence of infertility has increased, and appears to affect approximately one in six couples. Some of them must perform assisted reproductive techniques (ART) in order to achieve pregnancy. As a result, growing interest has arisen about predictive factors of pregnancy and live birth with and without ART. Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) is a glycoprotein discovered in the 1950s in male embryonic sexual differentiation. Later, in 1984, its role in folliculogenesis was reported: secreted by granulosa cells, this hormone is involved in the regulation of the recruitment of primordial follicles and in follicular growth. AMH assays were developed for women in 1990s, and the serum AMH level has rapidly become a crucial element in managing women's fertility. Based mainly on its ability to be a quantitative but indirect marker of ovarian reserve, the serum AMH assay is widely used in reproductive medicine and ART. This review summarizes current knowledge of the AMH assessment in the field of reproductive medicine. We focus on the role of AMH level to predict spontaneous pregnancy occurrence, ART outcomes, and fertility preservation outcomes.

* These authors contributed equally to this work.




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