Seven patients with anorexia nervosa were studied, three during the acute stages of the illness, and four in whom weight gain had been achieved, but who suffered from persistent amenorrhoea of 18 to 79 months' duration.In the acute stage all patients had low serum luteinizing hormone (LH) levels which were unresponsive to clomiphene citrate. In those who had regained weight the mean basal LH le...

Background: Currently clomiphene citrate is the first-line treatment to induce ovulation in women with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS). Surgical therapy with laparoscopic ovarian drilling (LOD) may avoid or reduce the need for gonadotropins. Objective: To determine the effectiveness and safety of LOD compared with ovulation induction in subfertile women with clomiphene-resistant PCOS. Search...

OBJECTIVES A large prospective clinical trial was conducted to compare the efficacy of single dose uFSH and clomiphene citrate combination with clomiphene citrate alone for ovulation induction to improve the pregnancy rate. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was a randomized, prospective clinical trial. Totally, 1527 infertile women (4381 cycles) with polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) (n=911/25...

objective: to determine the efficacy of ovarian drilling in pco patients who failed to achieve pregnancy with medical treatment. methods and main results: 75 patients with a diagnosis of pco of whom 48(64%) were primary infertile and 27(36%) were secondary infertile were clomiphene resistant. the other methods like bromocriptin, gonadotropins, gnrh -a and metformin had been given to these patie...

Polycystic ovary syndrome is a common cause of an ovulatory infertility. Drugs like Aromatase inhibitors, Human menopausal gonadotropin, used for ovulation induction. The aim this study was carried out to compare the therapeutic effects gonadotropin hormone versus oral ovarian stimulating agents. A prospective randomized controlled clinical trial in Salahdeen general hospital Tikrit from 1st Fe...

Background: Infertility is a major cause of socio-emotional and psychological burden world-wide nearly half all cases infertility were as result male partner’s related factors which oligoasthenozoospermia contributor. Currently, different treatments have been developed to manage this deficiency improve semen parameters but no substantial results documented.
 Aims: This study therefore aims...

BACKGROUND Subfertility due to anovulation is a common problem in women. First-line oral treatment is with anti-oestrogens, for example clomiphene citrate, but resistance (failure to ovulate) may be apparent with clomiphene. Alternative and adjunctive treatments have been developed such as tamoxifen, dexamethasone, and bromocriptine. OBJECTIVES To determine the relative effectiveness of anti-...

BACKGROUND Some trials have compared laparoscopic ovarian drilling (LOD) with gonadotropins but, because of variations in study design and small sample size, the results are inconsistent and definitive conclusions about the relative efficacy of LOD and gonadotropins cannot be extracted from the individual studies. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relative efficacy of LOD and gonadotropins for infert...