Treating the infertile client with competence and compassion is within the scope of practice for advanced practice clinicians. However, due to both a lack of emphasis on infertility treatment in many advanced practice education programs and confusion regarding diagnosis and treatment by many practitioners, infertility is often undertreated by these providers. A basic infertility evaluation, pat...

Endometriosis is a well known cause of infertility. Endometriosis of the appendix is a very rare condition. To highlight this rare entity, we are reporting a case of a young lady who was admitted with recurrent attacks of lower abdominal pain associated with primary infertility. Preoperative diagnosis was acute appendicitis. Histopathological examination of the appendix revealed endometriosis. ...

BACKGROUND The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychological influence of gender infertility diagnoses among men in couples about to start their first IVF or ICSI treatment. METHODS The study was a part of a prospective study of 65 men with male infertility diagnosis and 101 men in couples with female, mixed and unexplained infertility diagnoses. Of the 200 men invited, 166 ag...

BACKGROUND Hormonal derangements potentially contribute to the diagnosis of infertility in over 60%-70% of couples investigated. Use of hormonal and antihormonal agents has achieved great success in the treatment of male infertility. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of hormonal abnormalities in males diagnosed with infertility. METHODS Males diagnosed clinically with infertility and ...

We present a rare case of cystic cervicitis in 42-year-old woman who came to our unit suffering from primary infertility for one year. Her only complaint was infertility. She not chronic pelvic pain or increased vaginal discharge neither before nor after marriage. Diagnosis made by both transvaginal ultrasound examination and MRI. As her main problem infertility, she refrained doing cone biopsy...