MEDICAL TREATMENT

I-37: Medical Treatment of Endometriosis inInfertility

There is still not enough evidence that endometriosis per se and infertility are causally related. While extensive pelvic adhesions or the loss of ovarian tissue clearly bears out the causative role of endometriosis this is more difficult in other patients. Several randomized controlled trials and observational studies have in fact reported almost uniform negative results: • spontaneous pregnan...

I-2: Medical Treatment of Male Infertility

Male factor is the sole reason or a component for infertility in 20 and 30% of cases respectively. Medical treatment is preferred for patients with testicular failure due to endocrine or exocrine diseases. Although the infertility may be due to a pathology in the hypothalamic- pituitary axis, the majority of the cases occurs as results of testicular failure. In general medical treatment modalit...

Medical treatment, medical research and informed consent.

Medical treatment of dystonia

Therapeutic strategies in dystonia have evolved considerably in the past few decades. Three major treatment modalities include oral medications, botulinum toxin injections and surgical therapies, particularly deep brain stimulation. Although there has been a tremendous interest in the later two modalities, there are relatively few recent reviews of oral treatment. We review the medical treatmen...

Textbook of Medical Treatment