Infertility, infertility treatment, and mixed-handedness in children

Infertility, infertility treatment, and congenital malformations: Danish national birth cohort.

OBJECTIVES To examine whether infertile couples (with a time to pregnancy of > 12 months), who conceive naturally or after treatment, give birth to children with an increased prevalence of congenital malformations. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING Danish national birth cohort. PARTICIPANTS Three groups of liveborn children and their mothers: 50,897 singletons and 1366 twins born of fert...

Infertility, infertility treatment and twinning: the Danish National Birth Cohort.

BACKGROUND We have previously observed that an increasing time to pregnancy (TTP) is associated with a reduced frequency of twin deliveries in couples not receiving infertility treatment. By using updated information, we assessed the frequencies of dizygotic (DZ) and monozygotic (MZ) twin deliveries as a function of infertility (TTP > 12 months), as well as infertility treatment. METHODS From...

Infertility Counselling: Alleviating the Emotional Burden of Infertility and Infertility Treatment

This article provides an overview of international developments in the area of infertility counselling. It informs about the development of international organizations and relevant professional standards and describes the need to make counselling accessible to all patients, especially those who experience great distress or display previous vulnerability. Whereas in previous years counselling fo...

Evaluation and treatment of infertility.

Infertility is defined as the inability to achieve pregnancy after one year of regular, unprotected intercourse. Evaluation may be initiated sooner in patients who have risk factors for infertility or if the female partner is older than 35 years. Causes of infertility include male factors, ovulatory dysfunction, uterine abnormalities, tubal obstruction, peritoneal factors, or cervical factors. ...

Gonadotropin Treatment in Male Infertility