Use of clomiphene citrate in women.

I A T p d m c vulatory dysfunction is one of the most common causes of eproductive failure in sub-fertile and infertile couples. In the bsence of other significant infertility factors, successful vulation induction often will restore normal fertility. Cloiphene citrate (CC) is the best initial treatment for the large ajority of anovulatory infertile women. The first clinical rial of CC therapy demonstrated successful ovulation inducion in 80% of women, half of whom achieved pregnancy uring treatment (1). In subsequent years, results of CC reatment have not changed appreciably, despite the advent f modern immunoassays for steroid hormones, advances in ltrasound technology for cycle monitoring, and the introuction of commercial test kits that allow detection of the idcycle luteinizing hormone (LH) surge in urine.