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...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the fallopian tube of women with infertility and to observe whether there are any significant differences in the Hysterosalpingogram findings with regard to prevalence of tubal block in women with primary and secondary infertility. METHODS A retrospective study of unilateral and bilateral tubal obstruction in Hysterosalpingogram of women wi...

OBJECTIVES Using a statistical modelling approach, our study aim is to determine reliable age-related estimates of the risk of all-cause tubal factor infertility (TFI) following past or current chlamydial infection in women in Scotland. METHOD Using data from several sources, a Markov-Chain Monte Carlo model was used to estimate the age-related risk of TFI given genital chlamydia infection at...

BACKGROUND To study the prevalence of Chlamydia infection in women with primary and secondary unexplained infertility using ELISA technique for antibody detection and real time, fully automated PCR for antigen detection and to explore its association with circulating antisperm antibodies (ASA). METHODS A total of 50 women with unexplained infertility enrolled in this case control study and a ...

Sir, A recent literature search on infertility prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa brought the article entitled ‘International estimates on infertility prevalence and treatment seeking: potential need and demand for medical care’ to my attention (Boivin et al., 2007). The article was published under ‘New Debate’ in this journal. Following a literature review of population based studies, the author...

The concept of autoimmune-related infertility has remained controversial. Traditionally, abnormal autoimmune function has been implicated as a contributing factor to female as well as male infertility. In the female, abnormal autoimmunity primarily relates to autoantibody activity against ovarian tissue components, whereas in the male, abnormal autoimmunity, believed to be clinically relevant, ...

introduction: infertility is a major problem in today´s medicine. infertility is known a health indicator and the right to infertility treatment is part of millennium development goal. the present study aimed to determine the risk factors of infertility, in women referred to both public and private health centers in ilam. materials and methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out among wome...