Male infertility is directly or indirectly responsible for 60% of cases involving reproductive-age couples with fertility-related issues. Nevertheless, the evaluation of male infertility is often underestimated or postponed. A coordinated evaluation of the infertile male using standardized procedures improves both diagnostic precision and the results of subsequent management in terms of effecti...

Anovulatory cycles and endometriosis are the main causes of female infertility. The most frequently anovulatory cycles are related to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) commonly associated with obesity and hormonal disturbances in the course of obesity. Recently published studies revealed that infertility affects about one in six couples during their lifetime and is more frequent in obese. Obesit...

Infertility affects 10-15% of couples who are trying to conceive, and half of the cases are due to male infertility. Intracytoplasmic sperm injection is increasingly being used to overcome multiple sperm deficiencies. Due to its effectiveness, some have proposed ICSI as a solution for all cases of male infertility, regardless of the cause. Hence, even men with potentially treatable causes of in...

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. We read with interest the commentary by Dr. Pandiyan and colleagues (1) about the merit of our recently published clinical practice guidelines for sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) testing based on clinical scenarios (2). We noted that these authors were quite skeptic about the integration of SDF testing into the clinical...

OBJECTIVES To assess the effect of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicine (CHM) in the management of female infertility and on pregnancy rates compared with Western Medical (WM) treatment. METHODS We searched the Medline and Cochrane databases and Google Scholar until February 2010 for abstracts in English of studies investigating infertility, menstrual health and Traditional Chinese Medicine (T...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of clinical guidelines on the management of infertility across the primary care-secondary care interface. DESIGN Cluster randomised controlled trial. SETTING General practices and NHS hospitals accepting referrals for infertility in the Greater Glasgow Health Board area. PARTICIPANTS All 221 general practices in Glasgow; 214 completed the trial. INTER...

Abstract. Abdominal pain during menstrual periods (dysmenorrhea), accompanied by pelvic pain, and infertility are symptoms that patients with endometriosis often complain of. Endometriosis is a chronic,inflammatory condition estrogen-dependent characterized proliferation of the endometrial glands stroma outside uterine cavity. occurs in nearly 2-10% women childbearing age, 35-50% or infertility...

Development in ART has been remarkable in the last decades. Several medical conditions affecting the male fertility status are now treated by ART, especially by the combination of in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection. ICSI is now the treatment of choice of most untreatable causes of male infertility, including immunologic infertility, severe oligozoospermia and azoospermi...

BACKGROUND Infertility is defined as inability of a couple to conceive naturally after one year of regular unprotected sexual intercourse. It remains a major clinical and social problem, affecting perhaps one couple in six. Evaluation usually starts after 12 months; however it may be indicated earlier. The most common causes of infertility are: male factor such as sperm abnormalities, female fa...