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. 2021 May 6;28(6):1688–1696. doi: 10.1007/s43032-021-00528-z

Table 2.

Clinical outcomes of current POI treatments

Treatment Method Number of patients recruited Outcome

Traditional in vitro activation

(Kawamura et al. 2013 [22])

Laparoscopic unilateral ovary fragmentation followed by Akt in vitro stimulation for 2 days with subsequent transplantation of the ovary fragments in the contralateral ovary (two surgeries) 27 POI 2 pregnancies

Simplified in vitro activation

(Kawamura et al. 2020 [52])

Laparoscopic partial or complete cortex removal and unilateral fragmentation, followed by transplantation of the ovary fragments in the contralateral ovary (one surgery) 11 POR/DOR 4 pregnancies

Transplantation of UCMSC on collagen scaffold

(Ding et al. 2018 [19])

Intraovarian injection 14 POF 2 pregnancies

Autologous BMSC therapy

(Igboeli et al. 2020 [46])

Laparoscopic intraovarian injection 2 POF No pregnancy reported

Autologous BMSC therapy

(Edessy et al. 2016 [47])

Laparoscopic intraovarian injection 10 POF 1 pregnancy

Autologous BMSC therapy

(Gupta et al. 2018 [23])

Laparoscopic intraovarian injection 1 POF 1 pregnancy

Autologous BMSC therapy

(Gabr et al. 2016[48])

Laparoscopic intraovarian artery injection 30 POF 1 pregnancy

Autologous BMSC therapy

(Herraiz et al. 2018 [24])

Intraarterial catheterization to intraovarian artery (after 5 days of stem cell mobilization to peripheral blood and apheresis) 15 POR 5 pregnancies

Autologous PRP treatment

(Sills et al. 2018 [25])

Non-surgical transvaginal ultrasound-guided intraovarian injection 4 POR 1 pregnancy

Autologous PRP treatment

(Pantos et al. 2019 [26])

Non-surgical transvaginal ultrasound-guided bilateral intraovarian injection 3 POF 3 pregnancies

Autologous PRP treatment

(Sfakianoudis et al. 2019 [63])

Non-surgical transvaginal ultrasound-guided bilateral intraovarian injection 3 POR 3 pregnancies

Autologous PRP and gonadotropin combination treatment

(Hsu et al. 2020 [27])

Non-surgical transvaginal ultrasound-guided bilateral intraovarian injection 1 POI 1 pregnancy

Autologous PRP treatment

(Cakiroglu et al. 2020 [66])

Non-surgical transvaginal ultrasound-guided intraovarian injection 510 POR 43 pregnancies

Autologous high-dose PRP treatment

(Petryk et al. 2020 [67])

Laparoscopic-assisted technique intraovarian injection 38 POR 10 pregnancies