April 23–29 is National Infertility Awareness Week and is intended to increase awareness of infertility, which affects the reproductive systems of both women and men (1). In general, infertility is defined as the inability of couples to achieve pregnancy after ≥1 year of trying (1). However, given that fertility in women is known to decline steadily with age, some providers evaluate and treat w...

Specialist infertility practice was studied in a group of 708 couples within a population of residents of a single health district in England. They represented an annual incidence of 1.2 couples for every 1000 of the population. At least one in six couples needed specialist help at some time in their lives because of an average of infertility of 21/2 years, 71% of whom were trying for their fir...

OBJECTIVE To find out different causes of female infertility with diagnostic laparoscopy and their comparative frequency in primary and secondary infertility. STUDY DESIGN A case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Obstetric and Gynaecology, Liaquat University Hospital (LUH), Hyderabad, rom January 2006 to December 2007. METHODOLOGY All infertile women underwent diagnostic l...

OBJECTIVE To describe the different causes of infertility based on findings of diagnostic laparoscopy and their comparative frequency in primary and secondary infertility. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Obstetrics and Gynaecology Unit of Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, from January to December 2005. METHODOLOGY All patients undergoing diagnostic lap...

More than 70 million infertile couples lived in the worldwide. The majority of infertile couples are residents in developing countries. These residents experience more negative consequences of infertility in compared with western societies [1]. Motherhood is an important part of life in nearly all cultures. It is presented as an essential role for all Muslim women, especially Iranian women [2]....

This retrospective study aimed to assess the value of Hysteroscopy (HS) in studying rate and types abnormalities found uterine cavity during evaluation infertile patients comparison hysterosalpingography (HSG). Subject Methods: this included 149 women underwent HS for primary & secondary infertility, recurrent abortions failed IVF cycles at Department Obstetrics Gynecology Zliten teaching H...

o p w t t n p p to 30% of couples who are unable to conceive are etermined to have unexplained infertility (1). Traditionally, his diagnosis is made only after the basic infertility evalution fails to reveal an obvious abnormality. The basic evalation should provide evidence of ovulation, adequate sperm roduction and patency of the fallopian tubes. However, ven the most sophisticated diagnostic...

BACKGROUND: A cross sectional study was designed to survey the relationship between anxiety/depression and duration/cause of infertility, in Vali-e-Asr Reproductive Health Research Center, Tehran, Iran. METHODS: After obtaining their consents, 370 female patients with different infertility causes participated in, and data gathered by Beck Depression Inventory(BDI) and Cattle questionnaires for ...

OBJECTIVE To compare sperm characteristics among: patients undergoing infertility evaluation, patients with male factor infertility (MFI), healthy sperm donors, and men with proven fertility; to examine the overlap of sperm characteristics in all four of these groups; and to identify good discriminators of fertility versus infertility among sperm characteristics. DESIGN Retrospective study. ...