BACKGROUND Coeliac women may suffer from gynaecological and obstetric complications. It is possible that these complications are the first symptom of coeliac disease. AIMS To investigate the occurrence of subclinical coeliac disease in patients with infertility or recurrent miscarriages. SUBJECTS Women of reproductive age who were attending the hospital because of either primary or secondar...

OBJECTIVE To explore the effect of ever having tried to conceive for more than 12 months on levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms and to investigate if symptom levels of anxiety and depression in infertile women who remain childless, or go on to have children, respectively, differ from symptom levels in mothers without reports of infertility. METHODS Analyses were based on information fro...

In this case study patient aged 27 years presented with anxious to conceive since two of regular and satisfactory marital relationship seeking Ayurvedic line treatment, diagnosed unexplained hyperprolactinemia & hyperemic cervix. From detailed history involvement vitiated Vata kapha, Agnimandhya noticed. she was treated samshamani vati kapikacchu churna orally along panchavalkal taila yonip...

The objective of this study was to determine the impact of the learning curve of one surgeon on the term delivery rate following laparoscopic salpingostomy for tubal infertility. This was a retrospective audit of ongoing clinical practice, undertaken in two tertiary level infertility programmes. Subjects in this study were women undergoing surgery for total occlusion of the distal Fallopian tub...

Primary infertility is a key issue in the developed world, while the developing world has high rates of secondary infertility. The impact of HIV/AIDS on fertility is insufficiently explored. One of the most important barriers to access to infertility treatment is cost; at the same time the role of social and cultural factors in restricting access should not be underestimated. IVF has become the...

OBJECTIVES To determine the outcome of therapeutic hydrotubation (tubal flushing) in patients with tubal infertility and unexplained infertility. DESIGN Prospective non-randomised observational study. SETTING Alba hospital, a five bed multidisciplinary private hospital in Kaduna city, Nigeria. SUBJECTS Infertile women with tubal and unexplained infertility. RESULTS Two hundred and fifty...

Studies on polymorphism of estrogen receptor (ESR) alpha and beta genes have been mostly implicated in infertility, but the results have been controversial due to lack of comprehensive data. The present study focused on association of ESR genes with both male and female infertility. In ESRα, PvuII (rs2234693) and XbaI (rs9340799) were studied while in ESRβ gene, risk of infertility was determin...