INTRODUCTION Patients with uterine malformations have decreased reproductive potential and an unfavourable reproductive outcome starting even from the first pregnancy. Patients with untreated uterine malformations have a term delivery rate of 40%-65%. Hysteroscopic metroplasty is a standard, safe and minimally invasive method for treatment of uterine malformations, which provides a normal uteri...

INTRODUCTION This article compares the prevalence of primary infertility in Iran estimates provided by different studies. No other study had provided a review about the researches related to epidemiology of infertility in the country. MATERIALS AND METHODS A literature review was undertaken using the scientific resources on the internet and the list of national projects obtained from Deputy o...

BACKGROUND Infertility is highly prevalent in Nigeria and most infertile couples in southeast Nigeria are offered conventional forms of treatment, which consist mainly of ovulation induction and tubal surgery, due to limited availability and high cost of endoscopic and assisted reproductive technologies like laparoscopy and in vitro fertilization. The aim of this study was to determine the prev...

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...

Studies on the impact of subclinical hypothyroidism in infertility are scarce and this seeks to determine the proportion of infertile Nigerian women with hyperprolactinaemia that had subclinical hypothyroidism. Serum prolactin and thyroid stimulating hormone were determined using ELECSYS 1010 auto analyzer. Two hundred infertile women were evaluated and 67(33.7%) had hyperprolactinaemia. Subcli...

Infertility affects relatively large number of couple both globally as well as in India. There are sparse data on the prevalence of infertility in India. This study describes the correlates and prevalence of infertility among couples in Ambala, India . This study is a cross sectional study done in the urban field practice area of M. M. Institute of Medical Sciences & Research, during January 20...

BACKGROUND Submucosal myomas are associated with infertility, and may be treated by hysteroscopic resection. Improvement of the menstrual pattern after surgery has been examined and compared with pregnancy rate in a group of menorrhagic women with primary (n = 24) and secondary (n = 35) infertility. METHODS The entire patient group (n = 59) was managed between January 1990 and September 1998....

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES There are sparse data on the prevalence of primary infertility in India and almost none from Southern India. This study describes the correlates and prevalence of primary infertility among young women in Mysore, India. METHODS The baseline data were collected between November 2005 through March 2006, among 897 sexually active women, aged 15-30 yr, for a study investiga...