This review article has focussed on identifying the evidence from randomized controlled trials for the medical and surgical management of endometriosis. A critical summary of the medical management has shown that there is little difference in effectiveness of various medical treatments, but there are differences in the side-effect profiles. Few randomized controlled trials have been undertaken ...

In Great Britain, married couples were reported to have between 1.9 and 2.1 children, while men with Crohn's disease had a mean of 1.2 and of 0.4 children before and after diagnosis, respectively. The role of zinc for male fertility is essential. Although lack of zinc in Crohn's disease is well established in up to 70% of patients, a possible relation between zinc deficiency and male subfertili...

Previous work has suggested an association between male subfertility and a female-biased offspring sex ratio. This study of the reproduction of men who had a semen analysis at the Sperm Analysis Laboratory in Copenhagen in the period 1963-1993 showed that the subfertile men had an offspring sex ratio as expected (51.0% boys versus 51.3%, P: = 0.56), and within the cohort, the offspring sex rati...

AIM OF THE STUDY With this study, we wanted to examine the needs of men with fertility problems in terms of communication, care and coping with the diagnosis. METHODOLOGY data gathered prospectively by means of a written questionnaire (quantitative data), and semi-structured interviews (qualitative data). SAMPLE 78 subfertile men who consulted for subfertility at the department for reproduc...

The subfertile male has posed challenging problems to the medical profession. A myriad of therapeutic regimens have been devised and advocated, sometimes on scientific basis, but more often on unsound and illogical principles, as judged by modern medical standards. Most of these regimens have gradually faded into oblivion, and few have resisted the test of time and stood up to the challenge of ...

This study aimed to determine the frequency of pelvic pathologies in female primary subfertility by using diagnostic laparoscopy. A prospective was conducted Department Gynecology and Obstetrics Nishtar Hospital, Multan, from April 2022- 2023. total 100 women aged 20-40 years who were unable get pregnant after unprotected sex for one year had a normal examination semen analysis husband selected...