I had the endometrial scratch last cycle prior to my IVF this cycle. The biopsy was sent away for testing of natural killer cells. The result says this:
Immunostains for CD56, a marker for natural killer cells, shows small numbers of stromal cells with positive staining at a rate of 6 cells per high power field. NK cell count: 6 cells/HPF
Some websites say that women with high levels of these cells are treated, while other websites seem to suggest it is normal for these cells to be raised at the time of implantation, as though they are crucial to implantation rather than detrimental to it.
Does anyone have any experience with this to know what my result means? I will phone my Dr tomorrow but I can't always get in contact with her for some days and I am in day 4 of my IVF cycle so some reassurance in the meantime would be helpful.
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What dooes my natural killer cell result mean?
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Shellster52 · 24/11/2014 07:24
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