BACKGROUND Infertility makes an essential challenge to the sexual life of couples, especially infertile women. When pregnancy does not happen, infertile women think that sexual intercourse is not fruitful and sexual desire became reduce gradually. Infertile women progressively forget that their sexual relationship is also a response to their natural need. OBJECTIVE This qualitative study was ...

BACKGROUND A decrease in HOXA11 expression in eutopic mid-secretory endometrium has been found in women with endometriosis-associated infertility. METHODS Using Real-time quantitative PCR (RQ-PCR) and western blotting analysis we studied the HOXA11 transcript and protein levels in mid-luteal eutopic endometrium from eighteen infertile women with minimal endometriosis, sixteen healthy fertile ...

BACKGROUND Personality traits affect human relationships, social interactions, treatment procedures, and essentially all human activities. The purpose of this study is to investigate the personality traitsincluding sensation seeking, flexibility, and happiness among a variety of infertile women who were apt to choose assisted reproductive technology (ART) or surrogacy. MATERIALS AND METHODS T...

background: sexual problems have different effects on the life of people by influencing their interpersonal and marital relationships and satisfaction. relationship between sexual dysfunctions and infertility can be mutual. sexual dysfunction may cause difficulty conceiving but also attempts to conceive, may cause sexual dysfunction. objective: this paper compares sexual dysfunction in fertile ...

In order to determine whether general practitioners (GPs) are interested in infertility counselling and whether infertile patients seek help from their family doctor, we personally interviewed doctors and infertile patients. Almost all of the board-certified GPs in Göttingen, Germany, and two independent samples of infertile women and men attending the Göttingen University Hospital participated...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to determine the status of acrosome intactness in different infertile conditions among men who have attended the Mediwave Fertility Research Center, Mysore, South India. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 70 infertile and 20 control subjects were employed in the study. Infertile subjects were classified into different conditions according ...

Active immune mechanism in the female reproductive tract may produce high levels of anti-seminal/sperm antibodies. Generated antibodies in the process of isoimmunization seem to be associated with female immune infertility. The aim of our study consists in the profiling of specific serum immunoglobulin classes and subclasses in infertile women. We focus on the distribution of serum seminal/sper...

BACKGROUND Lifestyle has been shown to affect fertility in both males and females, with compelling evidence that smoking and being under or overweight impairs natural and assisted fertility, and other factors such as stress and caffeine have also been implicated. The objective of this study was to determine whether providing infertile couples with individualized lifestyle assessments and ongoin...

Objective To determine general attitudes of fertile and infertile women to oocyte donation in a Muslim and secular population. Methods The participants consisted of fertile women (n=133) who had at least one healthy living child spontaneously conceived without any fertility treatment and infertile women (n=133) who were diagnosed with primary infertility. Both groups were evaluated with chart...