The authors assessed the accuracy of cause(s) of subfertility as reported by women in a self-administered questionnaire in comparison with medical record information, in a nationwide cohort study of women receiving in vitro fertilization treatment in the Netherlands (n = 9,164) between 1983 and 1995. Validity was expressed as sensitivity and specificity, and reliability was expressed by the kap...

Fallopian tube defects are responsible for subfertility in 12.0-33.0% of subfertile couple. Hysterosalpingography (HSG) is a safe and less invasive method of detecting both the tubal and uterine defects. The objective of this study was to find out the incidence of tubal blockage including its site and side diagnosed by HSG in subfertile Nepalese women and to find out the incidence of uterine an...

Male subfertility is a major problem that is encounted in today’s urological practice. Occupation plays an important role among the factors contributing to male subfertility. The present study evaluates the pattern of occupational distribution in a subfertile population attending to urology and andrologyclinics. The current study included 120 male patients with a history of subfertility. Accord...

BACKGROUND There has been a threefold increase in the rate of Caesarean section over the past 25 years. The long-term consequences of Caesarean section may include subsequent subfertility. METHODS We investigated the relationship between Caesarean section and subfertility within a cohort of 14 541 pregnant women. RESULTS A history of previous Caesarean section was associated with an increas...

The association between blocking folate receptor (FR) autoantibodies and subfertility was investigated in a longitudinal study of women attempting to become pregnant. Seventeen women with subfertility (failure to conceive during 12 menstrual cycles) and 25 control women (women who conceived and went on to have normal pregnancy outcomes) were studied. Subfertility risk was 12 times higher in wom...

OBJECTIVE To critically appraise current best available management of pain and subfertility ascribable to endometriosis. METHODS Medline and specialist computer databases were searched along with reference lists of known reviews and primary articles to identify cited articles not captured by electronic searches. We included all studies pertaining to treatment of pain and subfertility ascribab...

background: hyperhomocysteinemia (hhcy) has been considered as a risk factor for several obstetrical complications such as early pregnancy loss pre-eclampsia and iugr. recently its association with infertility has been underscored in ivf failures; however limited information is available about the relationship of hhcy and subfertility. objective: to find out the association between unexplained ...