background & aim : worldwide prevalence of infertility has been reported to be 3-7% of all couples. there are varieties among the results of studies conducted on the prevalence of infertility in iran. the present study aimed to evaluate the trend of infertility using meta-analysis method in iran. methods & materials : we systematically reviewed all published papers in medline database of the na...

OBJECTIVES To determine the occurrence of Mycoplasma genitalium (M. genitalium) infection in infertile women attending infertility clinic and its association to infertility. Methods: Endocervical specimens were collected from women presenting with primary and secondary infertility and from fertile women as control group. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR)  assay was performed to detect t...

OBJECTIVE To assess physicians' awareness of the infertility risk associated with race, age, and education, and to elicit their clinical management recommendations for a hypothetical patient. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Surveys were mailed to 1,000 randomly selected primary care physicians in the state of Michigan. PATIENT(S) None. INTERVENTIONS(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

Background Infertility is a public health issue with significant impact on the well-being of affected couples. Aim This paper aims to detect determinants pregnancy and their outcome after assisted reproductive therapy (ART) in sample Palestinian society. Methods A retrospective observational study was carried out at Razan Medical Center for Infertility. Subjects were assigned into twelve catego...

Infertility is a public health problem in developed and developing countries. Diagnostic laparoscopy is a generally accepted procedure to detect pelvic organ pathologies affecting fertility. This study was undertaken to find out the tubal pathology contributing to primary and secondary infertility by laparoscopic examination. The study was carried out in the department of Gynaecology and Obstet...

Women with recurrent abortion, primary unexplained infertility, and gestational trophoblastic neoplasia (GTN) manifest disordered human chorionic gonadotrophin (HCG) secretion. Mutations in the HCG beta/luteinizing hormone (LH) beta gene complex could cause aberrant HCG production in these disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine whether HCG beta gene deletions occur in women with ...

introduction primary amenorrhea isa condition in which a young woman has not started her menstrual periods by the age of 16-18. the principal features of polycystic ovarian syndrome (pcos) are anovulation, resulting in irregular menstruation, amenorrhea, and ovulation-related infertility. case presentation from january 2007 to june 2013 we conducted 2215 laparoscopies, out of which 605(27.6%) w...

Infertility is a serious but entirely neglected public health problem in resource-poor countries. Most of the infertility is caused by infections and therefore potentially preventable. The problem of infertility in Rwanda has not been -researched so far. We examined predictors for infertility and treatment-seeking behaviour in an unmatched case-control. We performed infertility investigations i...

background: posterior urethral valve presenting in adulthood is uncommon. this can be an unusual cause of primary male infertility as a result of abnormalities in sexual function. case presentation: this report describes a 40 year old man who presented to us on account of inability to impregnate his wife after 2 years of marriage. history revealed poor stream of urine since childhood and passag...