This prospective randomized study was performed in order to investigate the effects of interventive treatment or counselling on pregnancy rates in infertile couples in whose male partners a varicocele was diagnosed. The present report extends a previous study using the same design. A total of 125 couples were included in the current study while the previous report comprised 95 couples. Couples ...

PROBLEM The objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of chromosomal anomalies to decreased fertility in humans. METHOD OF STUDY In order to investigate the aetiology of infertility in our population and to assess the karyotype in a group of infertile couples and individuals with fertility problems, 782 persons (259 couples, 158 male and 106 female) with different clinical diag...

Objective Fertility plays an important role in sexual and psychological function in families. Infertility can result in major emotional, social, and mental disorders, including a reduction in satisfaction with marital life and quality of life. The present study aimed to compare the quality of life and marital satisfaction and sexual satisfaction between fertile and infertile couples. MaterialsA...

background: this study assessed emotional adjustment of infertile couples and the psychological outcomes of infertility (depression anxiety relationship and sexual problems and personality disorders) in different phases of treatment. references used include studies which have been performed within the last two decades. the articles were invested on data bases at pub med scholar google scpous an...

Background: Infertility is defined as failure to conceive within one or more years of regular unprotected coitus. The infertility state is dependent on the female factor as well as masculine factor; an altered masculine factor is designated when any cause or causes of infertility reside in the male. The masculine factor as a cause of infertility is present in 40-50% of cases hence the importanc...

The story is, unfortunately, nothing new. A woman and a man long to bring a child into the world, but they are unable to do so because the woman is infertile. So they turn to the scientific stork— the field of assisted reproductive technology (ART)—to deliver their baby. Some infertile couples choose surrogacy; others choose in vitro fertilization (IVF). It all depends on the particular roadblo...

In addition to ultrasonographic monitoring of folliculogenesis, urinary luteinizing hormone testing, luteal phase endometrial biopsy, serum antiphospholipid antibodies, etc., immunologic tests are recently being used to evaluate reproductive disorders. In this study, sharing of HLA-A, B, C and DR antigens and the presence of antipaternal cytotoxic antibody (APCA) was assessed using microcyt...