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Infertility [PDF]

open access: yesPrimary Care: Clinics in Office Practice
Infertility is the inability to achieve pregnancy after 12 months of trying to conceive. Infertility workup should begin immediately if any risk factors exist, or begin after 6 months of trying to conceive for females age 35 to 39, or after 12 months if younger than age 35.
Yahaya , Amina Mohammed
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Age and Infertility

Science, 1986
Direct evidence on age patterns of infecundity and sterility cannot be obtained from contemporary populations because such large fractions of couples use contraception or have been sterilized. Instead, historical data are exploited to yield upper bounds applicable to contemporary populations on the proportions sterile at each age. Examination of recent
J, Menken, J, Trussell, U, Larsen
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Infertility and HLA Antigen - Male Infertility and Infertile Couples -*

Andrologia, 2009
On the basis of the concept that immunogenetic factors play a role in the incidence of unexplained male infertility, the so-called idiopathic infertility, HLA antigen analyses were performed for (1) azoospermia cases among the infertile males diagnosed by testicular biopsies as having germ cell aplasia and (2) unexplained infertile couples. The results
S, Kamidono   +4 more
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On Infertility

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 1994
Infertility is not one objective life event and is not necessarily the salient event in understanding infertile couples' behaviors. Common behaviors observed in infertile couples may have different meanings. The nursing care of infertile couples is enhanced and more faithful to individual experience when the complexity and variation of infertility is ...
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Infertility in Kuwait

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1999
Cultural, socioeconomic and environmental factors play a major role in the etiology of infertilw x ity 1 . In countries where sexually transmitted infections and postabortal sepsis from premarital adolescent pregnancy with sequelae of w x tubal blockage are common 2 , smoking and cotw x ton farming result in sperm impairment 3,4 , or there is surgical ...
A E, Omu, A A, Ismail, F, Al-Qattan
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Operations for Infertility

Postgraduate Medicine, 1968
To find causes of infertility in women, patients are examined under anesthesia, culdoscopy is done, and the uterus is curetted. With the information gained, fertility can sometimes be restored by resecting an endometrioma, establishing fallopian tube patency, correcting a congenital anomaly, resecting wedges from polycystic ovaries, or removing a myoma.
L J, Malone, F M, Ingersoll
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Infertile couples' assessment of infertility treatment

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1998
The purpose of this study was to describe infertile patients' experiences and assessment of infertility treatment.Sixteen couples undergoing infertility treatment at the Fertility Clinic, Herlev Hospital in Copenhagen County. Denmark, were interviewed using a semi-structured qualitative interview.
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Endometriosis and infertility

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 1984
(1984). Endometriosis and infertility. Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica: Vol. 63, No. sup123, pp. 73-79.
W P, Dmowski, E, Radwanska
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Obesity and infertility

Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity, 2007
To summarize major factors affecting fertility in obesity.Fertility can be negatively affected by obesity. In women, early onset of obesity favours the development of menses irregularities, chronic oligo-anovulation and infertility in the adult age. Obesity in women can also increase risk of miscarriages and impair the outcomes of assisted reproductive
PASQUALI, RENATO   +2 more
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Psychiatric Aspects of Infertility and Infertility Treatments

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2007
Infertility counseling, whether provided by a psychiatrist or another health care professional, involves the treatment and care of patients, not simply when they are undergoing fertility treatment but also with their long-term emotional well-being, and that of their children and the reproductive helpers who may assist them in achieving biologic or ...
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