Table 1. The characteristics of participants categorized by anesthetic technique and comparing them in two groups.
| Characteristics | General anesthesia (n=83) | Spinal analgesia (n=81) |
p-values | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean ± SD* | ||||
| Age (years) | 30±5 | 30±5 | 0.9 | |
| Weight (kg) | 67±9 | 67±9 | 0.7 | |
| Height (cm) | 161±5 | 161±5 | 0.5 | |
| Body mass index (kg/cm2) | 26±4 | 26±3 | 0.9 | |
| Median (IQR**) | ||||
| Number of injected HMG ampoules | 32(26-41) | 34(27-45) | 0.3 | |
| Number of follicles formed | 9(7-11) | 9(7-11) | 0.7 | |
| Number of retrieved oocytes | 7(4-10) | 7(4-10) | 0.9 | |
| Number of embryos | 3(2-4) | 3(2-4) | 0.3 | |
| Number of embryos transferred | 3(2-4) | 3(2-4) | 0.3 | |
| Number (%) | ||||
| Sperm condition | Normal | 34(41) | 35(43) | 0.2 |
| Oligo-spermia | 17(21) | 16(21) | - | |
| Oligo-astheno-spermia | 17(21) | 8(10) | - | |
| Azo-spermia | 15(18) | 22(27) | - | |
| FSH (mIU/ml) | 10 or less | 72(87) | 68(84) | 0.6 |
| More than 10 | 11(13) | 13(16) | - | |
| Underlying factor | With Female factor | 41(49) | 40(49) | 0.9 |
| Without Female factor | 42(51) | 41(51) | - | |
| Grade of embryos | A and B | 59(71) | 58(72) | 0.9 |
| C and D | 24(29) | 23(28) | - | |
| Pregnancy test | Negative | 71(86) | 57(70) | 0.02 |
| Positive | 12(15) | 24(30) | - | |
*Standard deviation, **Inter-quartile range