Background Infertility and diagnostic and therapeutic procedures of which during assisted reproduction technologies (ART) make discomfort and anxiety for infertile couples. Several studies have demonstrated that infertility treatment procedures, particularly during ovulation induction period, lead to high levels of distress and anxiety in infertile women. The aim of this study was to evaluate t...

Oestradiol enhances pituitary sensitivity to gonadotrophin-releasing hormone (GnRH) in normal women, while in women undergoing ovulation induction the putative factor gonadotrophin surge attenuating factor (GnSAF) attenuates the response of luteinizing hormone (LH) to GnRH. To study the relationships between oestradiol and GnSAF during ovulation induction, 15 normally ovulating women were inves...

OBJECTIVE To measure the willingness to pay (WTP) of women aged 18-45 years to receive drug treatment for ovulation induction (ie, the social value of normal cycles of ovulation for a woman of childbearing age) in order to feed the debate about the funding of fertility cares. SETTING An anonymous questionnaire was used over the general population of Quebec. PARTICIPANTS A total of 136 subje...

It has been suggested recently that, in some quarters, IVF be offered as first-line therapy to all infertile couples, regardless of the type of infertility. Hence, the time was thought right to scrutinise the results and complications of ovulation induction for anovulatory infertile couples. In addition to examining the outcome of conventional treatment with gonadotrophins and clomiphene citrat...

This study reviewed the protocols for ovulation induction in sows by human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH). In pigs, it was documented that ovulation usually occurred about 70% of the way through oestrus. However, the duration of oestrus in sows highly varies, producing difficulty in performing artificial insemination (AI) in sows at optimal time. In pract...

Ovulation has been induced by clomiphene citrate and human gonadotropins in infertile women. Clomiphene should be the first choice in anovulatory women with active ovaries as indicated by basic levels of estrogens in blood or urine, in women with post-pill amenorrhea even if their ovaries are quiescent and in women with functional abnormalities of the hypothalamus or pituitary. Human gonadotrop...

Letrozole, an aromatase inhibitor, has been demonstrated to be effective as an ovulation induction and controlled ovarian hyperstimulation agent. However, dose administration has generally been limited to 5 days at 2.5 to 7.5 mg daily. We undertook a retrospective review of over 900 treatment cycles using letrozole in doses as high as 12.5 mg per day. Results indicate that such doses do indeed ...

combination therapy with clomiphene citrate plus gonadotropin (clomiphene citrate plus hmg) in induction ovulation reduce the gonadotropins dose but antiestrogenic effect of c.c. can decrease pregnancy rate. in a randomized clinical trial we compared 3 treatment protocol for induction ovulation and intra uterine insemination (i/o plus iui) in women with infertility history more than one year, n...