Polycystic ovarian disease (PCOD) is the most common endocrine disorder in women of reproductive age. The pathogenesis is not completely clear still today. Problems in inducing ovulation in PCOD is well recognized. A retrospective study of last 3 years in patients attending the OPD in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, JNMC, Sawangi, Wardha, who were diagnosed as cases of PCOD with co...

of antibiotic sensitivities of different organisms. The section on epidemiology reviews its basic principles and highlights important studies. In addition, there is an excellent section called "Spanish Primer" that gives the Spanish phrases for various topics relevant to obtaining a medical history. This phrase book comes in very handy when interviewing many of the Spanish-speaking patients who...

Background Infertility is one of the most common and important subjects in today’s obstetrics and gynecology. Immunological factors such as the presence of antisperm antibodies (ASA) are challenging etiologies for infertility. This study was performed to determine the correlation between the type of sexual practices (oral‚ anal and vaginal during menstruation) and the ASA levels in semen and in...

Marcelle I. Cedars, Susan E. Taymans, Louis V. DePaolo, LeeWarner, Stuart B. Moss, and Michael L. Eisenberg* Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA Fertility and Infertility Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda...

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...

Several studies have investigated the association between polymorphisms in protamine 1 and 2 genes and male infertility risk, with inconsistent results to date. This meta-analysis based on the 13 published case-control studies, including 7350 cases and 6167 controls, was performed to further establish the potential association between the 6 common single nucleotide polymorphisms (rs35576928, rs...

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OBJECTIVE Our objective was to determine the effect of PTSD on changing the quality of sperm in veterans with PTSD, and the percentage of successful procedures intrauterine insemination (IUI) as a first-line treatment of male infertility patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PATIENTS AND METHODS The study is designed as a prospective observational study. The study was started f...

Conclusions: Adolescents are good responders to medical treatment despite the presence of bleeding disorders, probably due to the positive coagulative effect of the estrogen component of OCs on platelets and clotting factors. Continuation of OC will be a problem in adolescent girls, because there are some misconceptions about OC in the Turkish population, such as that OC can cause infertility o...