Infertility affects about 10-15% of all couples attempting pregnancy with infertility attributed to the male partner in approximately half of the cases. Proposed causes of male infertility include sperm motility disturbances, Y chromosome microdeletions, chromosomal abnormalities, single gene mutations, and sperm mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) rearrangements. To investigate the etiology of decr...

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...

Purpose: To compare racial differences in accessing infertility services, and to characterize socioeconomic, cultural and social factors that influence the propensity to seek care. Methods: Using data from the 2002 and 2006-2010 rounds of the National Survey of Family Growth, bivariate analyses and multiple logistic regressions were performed to determine the associations between individual pat...

Infertility is a disease of the reproductive system characterized by inability to achieve pregnancy after 12 or more months of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. A variety of factors, including ovulation defects, spermatogenic failure, parental age, obesity, and infections have been linked with infertility, in addition to specific karyotypes and genotypes. The study of genes associated wit...

Original Article AIMS: To have a comprehensive look at the pelvic organs to know their size, shape, structure, relationship with one another or any pathology of pelvic organs. To assess their role in causing infertility. To assess whether the pathology requires medical or surgical treatment i.e. to formulate the further line of management. METHODS:All infertile patients (primary and secondary) ...

The preservation of reproductive health of the population is an important factor of demographic policy of the state. According to some authors from 14 to 30% of couples of reproductive age suffer from infertility, malefactor in such marriages is detected in more than half of the cases. As you know, in recent years there has been a significant deterioration in the main indicators of reproductive...

This study examined the relationship between demographic features and aetiological causes of male infertility. Primary infertility was the presentation in 78% of patients. The incidence of varicocele was the highest (31%), whereas only 4.6% had vasectomy reversal and 7.4% of men were diagnosed with idiopathic infertility. Using the chi-squared test, there was no significant difference in the in...

Human infertility has been increasing worldwide but the exact causes are not yet known. Male infertility, which currently accounts for approximately half of all cases, has been increasing faster than female. While certain cases of male infertility are due to anatomical abnormalities, an estimated 40-49% of cases are due to deficient sperm production of unidentifiable origin. There is growing bo...