BACKGROUND High-quality fertility care should be effective and safe, but also patient-centred. However, a suitable instrument for measuring patient-centredness is lacking. This study aims to develop and validate an instrument that can reliably measure patient-centredness in fertility care: patient-centredness questionnaire-infertility (PCQ-infertility). METHODS The PCQ's content, addressing 5...

PURPOSE Patients with testicular seminoma may face fertility issues because of their underlying disease as well as treatments they undergo. The current patterns of practice among U.S. radiation oncologists aimed at assessing and preserving fertility in patients with Stage I seminoma are unknown. METHODS We surveyed practicing U.S. radiation oncologists via an Institutional Review Board-approv...

Human Andrology 2011, 1:2–16 Objective To highlight the concept of unexplained male infertility and discuss the potential causes and its proper management. Design Review of literature. Results Male infertility of unknown origin is a condition in which fertility impairment occurs spontaneously or due to an obscure or unknown cause. It includes two categories, unexplained male infertility and idi...

Coverage of Infertility Treatment and Fertility Outcomes: Do Women Catch Up? The ageing of first-time mothers and the changes in women’s labor market conditions have been accompanied by the introduction and subsequent increase in the use of assisted reproductive therapies (ART) that help extend women’s reproductive lives. Considering the financial cost of infertility treatments, policy interven...

Background: According to WHO report, there are around 80 million people in the world that suffer from infertility and about 12-15% of the people in Iran are infertile. The nutrition has an important rule on infertility treatment. So we should improve the couple’s information and knowledge about the effective nutrition on the infertility to increase the chance of fertility and decrease negative ...

PURPOSE The purpose of this chapter is to review hormonal therapy in cryptorchidism in boys to improve fertility. METHODS Multiple searches, primarily in PubMed, were performed using various combinations of the terms: cryptorchidism, undescended testis (UDT), hormonal therapy, fertility, infertility, germ cell numbers, spermatogonia and semen analyses. In additions the pertinent articles from...

BACKGROUND Increased maternal and fetal risks have been reported in pregnancies following unexplained infertility. Our aims were to examine the obstetric and perinatal outcome of singleton pregnancies in couples with unexplained infertility and explore the impact of fertility treatment. METHODS Women with unexplained infertility were identified from the Aberdeen Fertility Clinic Database. The...

OBJECTIVE To illustrate the necessity for an enhanced understanding of the genetic basis of male factor infertility, to present a comprehensive synopsis of these genetic elements, and to review techniques being utilized to produce new insights in fertility research. BACKGROUND Male factor infertility is a complex disorder that affects a large sector of the population; however, many of its eti...

Infertility is defined as the failure to conceive, with no contraception, after one year of regular intercourse in women < 35 years and after 6 months in women > 35 years. A review on causes, management and treatment of endocrine causes of female infertility was performed. Epidemiological data suggest that around 10% to 15% of couples are infertile. Anovulatory problems are responsible from 25%...

This article examines the high prevalence of primary and secondary infertility in low-resource countries. Provision of assisted reproductive technology (ART) to overcome both female and male infertility is in line with the reproductive rights agenda developed at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo 15 years ago. In addition to the right to control fertility...