Bilirubin Concentration in Follicular Fluid Is Increased in Infertile Females, Correlates with Decreased Antioxidant Levels and Increased Nitric Oxide Metabolites, and Negatively Affects Outcome Measures of In Vitro Fertilization.

Highly significant values of the Spearman’s correlation coefficients were found when correlating concentration of total bilirubin in FF to the number of retrieved oocytes (r = −0.476; p < 0.0001), number of mature oocytes (r = −0.467; < 0.0001), number of fertilized oocytes (r = −0.379; p < 0.0001), number of blastocysts (r = −0.359; p < 0.0001) and number of high-quality blastocysts (r = −0.336; p < 0.0002).

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