منابع مشابه
Management of involuntary childlessness.
Any definition of involuntary childlessness has to consider the difference between sterility and subfertility. As the latter affects about 20-30% of all couples at least once in their lives, general practitioners (GPs) may be the first to be confronted with this problem. This review presents the most relevant diagnostic and therapeutic options in cases of female or male infertility, and discuss...
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In order to determine whether general practitioners (GPs) are interested in infertility counselling and whether infertile patients seek help from their family doctor, we personally interviewed doctors and infertile patients. Almost all of the board-certified GPs in Göttingen, Germany, and two independent samples of infertile women and men attending the Göttingen University Hospital participated...
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Semen specimens from four groups of patients were evaluated for coagulation and fibrinolysis factors: a group of patients with infertile semen and involuntary childlessness (n = 35), a group with fertile semen and involuntary childlessness (n = 39), a group with fertile semen and proven fertility before vasectomy (n = 34) and a group with infertile semen after vasectomy (n = 147). The third pat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biosocial Science
سال: 1975
ISSN: 0021-9320,1469-7599
DOI: 10.1017/s0021932000010026