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Who is at risk for ovarian hyperstimulation?

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What is a statistical risk of OHSS for patients going through IVF? What are the groups of patients at increased risk of OHSS?

The most common answer we hear to questions regarding OHSS Ovarian Hyper-Stimulation Syndrom is that patients suffering from PCOS are at greater risk. Is that entirely the truth? Can anyone suddenly suffer from OHSS?
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Gynaecologist, Muirhead Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Glasgow Royal Fertility Clinic and Medical Director at Access Fertility
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Absolutely, those women who have got a high ovarian reserve – they’ve got a high Antral follicle count or they’ve got a high AMH in advance, so that’s in the stimulation cycle they’d be at higher risk of OHSS but we now can predict those women and we can modify the cycle quite and minimize the risk of developing OHSS based on using these markers.