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Jennifer Pontré1,2 and Roger Hart1,2,3,4\*

1 King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2 Fertility Specialists of Western Australia, Bethesda Hospital, Claremont, Western Australia, Australia

3 Fertility Specialists South, Applecross, Western Australia, Australia

4 Division of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, King Edward Memorial Hospital, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

\*Address all correspondence to: roger.hart@uwa.ed.au

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