Background: Infertility is a painful emotional experience associated with stress. Objectives: The present study aimed at determining infertility-related stress and its associated factors in infertile clients referred to the infertility clinic of Al-Zahra hospital in Rasht, Iran, in 2019. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was performed on 200 clients undergoing infertility treatment, ...

Background: To analyze the evolution of semen parameters in leucospermic men explored for a couple's infertility according to the therapeutic management of leucocytospermia. The potential benefits of leucocytospermia treatment on the natural pregnancy outcomes are also examined. Materials and Methods: Our study was carried out in 100 leucospermic male parteners of infertile couples. Leucoc...

Male factor is the sole reason or a component for infertility in 20 and 30% of cases respectively. Medical treatment is preferred for patients with testicular failure due to endocrine or exocrine diseases. Although the infertility may be due to a pathology in the hypothalamic- pituitary axis, the majority of the cases occurs as results of testicular failure. In general medical treatment modalit...

OBJECTIVES To examine whether infertile couples (with a time to pregnancy of > 12 months), who conceive naturally or after treatment, give birth to children with an increased prevalence of congenital malformations. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING Danish national birth cohort. PARTICIPANTS Three groups of liveborn children and their mothers: 50,897 singletons and 1366 twins born of fert...

BACKGROUND We have previously observed that an increasing time to pregnancy (TTP) is associated with a reduced frequency of twin deliveries in couples not receiving infertility treatment. By using updated information, we assessed the frequencies of dizygotic (DZ) and monozygotic (MZ) twin deliveries as a function of infertility (TTP > 12 months), as well as infertility treatment. METHODS From...

OBJECTIVE To examine the costs and outcomes of infertility-related services in Massachusetts during a time of expanded use of assisted reproductive technology (ART). DESIGN Cost data were obtained from the Massachusetts Department of Insurance Rate-Setting Commission and 9 large group insurance plans for the period 1986-1993. Utilization and success rates of ART were examined, and the cost pe...

The purpose of this study is to investigate how family-related opinions and stressful situations are related to psychological distress in women undergoing infertility treatment. The subjects in this cross-sectional study were recruited from female patients undergoing infertility treatment (n = 2540) at 70 infertility treatment institutions in Japan. Because of non-participation or missing data,...

BACKGROUND Infertility is an emergent issue in India. Until recently, very few studies have understood the patterns and consequences of infertility in India. Family planning programs in India also viewed exclusively the patterns and determinants of overfertility rather than infertility. Furthermore, there is the lack of information about treatment seeking behavior of infertile couples. Therefor...

Because research on infertile women usually uses clinic-based samples of treatment seekers, it is difficult to sort out to what extent distress is the result of the condition of infertility itself and to what extent it is a consequence of the experience of infertility treatment. We use the National Survey of Fertility Barriers, a two-wave national probability sample of U.S. women, to disentangl...

PURPOSE Vasovasostomy (VVS) represents the standard therapy of choice for the treatment of obstructive azoospermia following vasectomy. However, recently, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) has been suggested by some to represent the solution for all cases of malefactor infertility regardless of its etiology based on its success rates. Therefore, we compared VVS to microsurgical epididymal...