BACKGROUND This study was conducted to determine if serum inhibin B concentration can predict spermatogenesis in azoospermic infertile men. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 70 patients with male-factor infertility referred to Alvand and Vali-e-Asr Infertility Centers, Tehran, Iran. All patients had azoospermia. Standard evaluation consisted of history and physical examination with ...

objective: this study aimed to determine factors affecting depression in infertile couples and effect of psychological intervention on pregnancy rate of infertile couples. materials and methods: in this study, 638 infertile patients referring to a university infertility clinic were evaluated. among them, 140 couples with different levels of depression in at least one of the spouses were found a...

Background: Infertility is one of the crises that can cause various mental problems such as depression that is stressful, but personal characteristics can influence the quality of response to infertility stress which is important to be recognized in depressed infertile women. In order to study the incidence of depression in infertile women and comparing individual and socio-economic characteris...

Background To introduce the application of hysterosalpingography in the investigation of female infertility for midwives. MaterialsAndMethods s:344:"A review was performed within articles published at “PubMed”, “Elsevier”, "Google Scholar", "EBSCO", original text books and etc. to reach the aim. Lots of unique high-quality hysterosalpingograms were provided in this article, using the archive of...

Background: Embryo donation is one of the methods of infertility treatment. With this way, Infertile couples use a donated Embryo formed from an egg of another woman and the sperm of another man. The embryo is then placed into the woman’s womb. In order to determine the legal nature of embryo donation, a comparison has been made between this legal institution and those mentioned in our Civil La...

Background Due to high prevalence of infertility, increasing demand for infertility treatment, and provision of high quality of fertility care, it is necessary for healthcare professionals to explore infertile couples’ expectations and needs. Identification of these needs can be a prerequisite to plan the effective supportive interventions. The current study was, therefore, conducted in an atte...

BACKGROUND The objective was to assess crude 5-year delivery rates after assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment, intrauterine inseminations (IUI), spontaneous conceptions (SC) and adoptions in a large infertile cohort. METHODS A prospective longitudinal survey comprised 1338 infertile couples starting public infertility programmes offering IUIs and three free ART cycles during 2000-...

background: sexual problems have different effects on the life of people by influencing their interpersonal and marital relationships and satisfaction. relationship between sexual dysfunctions and infertility can be mutual. sexual dysfunction may cause difficulty conceiving but also attempts to conceive, may cause sexual dysfunction. objective: this paper compares sexual dysfunction in fertile ...