OBJECTIVES This study was performed to evaluate the rate of diagnosed female genital tuberculosis and its presentational symptoms and methods of diagnosis. METHODS A total of 3088 cases of tuberculosis (TB) who had been registered and treated in the Health Center of Fars Province from 1989 to 1999 were retrospectively studied. From this group, 46 women were diagnosed as having genital TB. The...

Context: Oxidative stress is one of the factors related to the pathogenesis of fertility disorders such as idiopathic infertility, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and endometriosis. Hence, the role of micronutrients has attracted the attention of researchers to the extent that some studies have investigated the role of vitamins and minerals in the risk of female infertility. This study aimed to su...

There is a wealth of research exploring the psychological consequences of infertility and assisted reproduction technology, a substantial body of sociological and anthropological work on 'reproductive disruptions' of many kinds and a small but growing literature on patient perspectives of the quality of care in assisted reproduction. In all these fields, research studies are far more likely to ...

Infertility is not only a health problem, but is also a central existential intrapersonal and relational conflict. Infertility treatments are invasive, expensive, time-consuming, emotionally draining. All over the world there are numerous traditional methods used in the treatment of infertility. This investigation was carried out to determine the traditional practices of infertile women in a ru...

IN the two preceeding papers (Sinnathuray, Med. J. Malaysia, 1979), which represent the first two parts of my inaugural address, the impacts of reproductive research on Maternal Health (Part I) and on Fetal Health (Part II) have been presented at some length. In this paper is presented the impact of reproductive research on Fertility Health, and it covers the last two areas of my inaugural addr...

This study explored whether fertility-specific distress varied by race/ethnicity among a nationally representative sample of US women. Participants were 2363 White (n = 1266), Black (n = 569), Hispanic (n = 453), and Asian (n = 51) women who participated in the National Survey of Fertility Barriers. Participants were given the Fertility-Specific Distress Scale and assessed for strength of pregn...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine positive and negative social interactions experienced by infertile Japanese women. METHODS Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 24 infertile women. The informants were asked about their experiences of positive (helpful) and negative (unhelpful) social interactions with members of their social networks, excluding their partners, w...

Since 1983, Slovenia has been offering well-established, successful, and fully reimbursed IVF programme to infertile couples. On the grounds of data gathered at the Slovenian IVF units we aimed to determine whether the fully accessible IVF treatment system can provide notable success considering cumulative delivery rate (cDR). Longitudinal analysis of getting cDR was performed in 810 IVF cycles...

Women with prior pregnancy but no live birth are inconsistently termed as either 'primary infertile' or 'secondary infertile' in psychosocial studies of infertile women. The goal of this study was to discover whether infertile women who had experienced pregnancies but no live births were more similar in attitudes and behaviour to infertile women who had not experienced pregnancies or to those w...

Due to the high costs of infertility treatment, many infertile Americans find themselves without the means to procreate.1 Compounding this issue, access to infertility treatment varies greatly from state-to-state largely due to the differences in state insurance coverage mandates.2 The access to infertility treatment, such as artificial reproductive technology (“ART”), often correlates to facto...