Ultrasound plays an increasing role in the evaluation, monitoring, and treatment of infertility. About 15% of all couples attempting to have children are affected by infertility. As women delay conception due to career choices and age, the frequency of infertility increases. Infertility is defined as no conception after one year of unprotected intercourse. Ultrasound plays a remarkable role in ...

1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinic of Infertility and Gynecological Endocrinology – WHO Collaborating Center in Human Reproduction, University Hospital of Geneva, 32 Bvd de la Cluse, 1211 Geneva, 2Department of Pediatrics, Children University Hospital of Geneva, 6 Rue Willy Donzé, 1211 Geneva, and 3Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolism, Department of Medecine, Univ...

M.P. Vélez1,*, M.P. Connolly2,3, I.-J. Kadoch1,4, S. Phillips4 and F. Bissonnette1,4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada Department of Pharmacy, Unit of PharmacoEpidemiology & PharmacoEconomics, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands Global Market Access Solutions, St-Prex, Switzerland...

Introduction One of the important causes of male infertility is aberration at the chromosomes. Aim The main purpose of this study was to determine the frequency and types of chromosomal aberration in infertile/sterile men whose samples were analyzed in the Center for Cytogenetics of Faculty of Medicine University of Sarajevo in the last four years. Methods A total of 353 infertile/sterile m...

Department of Medical Sciences, IPUS-Institute of Higher Education, Chiasso, Switzerland Department of Medicine and Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA Clinic of Endocrinology, Alexandrovska University Hospital, Medical University, Sofia, Bulgaria IAKENTRO, Infertility Treatment Center, Thessaloniki, Greece Mother-Infant Department, Unive...

1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA 2 The Center for Study of Multiple Birth, Chicago, USA 3 Department of Obstetrics and Perinatology, Medical University of Lublin, Poland 4 Department of Genetics, Oakland Medical Center Permanente Medical Group, Oakland, USA 5 Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Departments of Biomedical Engineering...

Objectives: To compare between hysterosalpingography (HSG) and laparoscopic findings in patients tested for infertility thereby to determine the significance of latter examination. Methods: This was a descriptive study performed two Gynecology departments Dakar (Senegal). Included were 84 with suspicious tubal-infertility who underwent HSG followed by laparoscopy. The Kappa (K) statistics used ...

INTRODUCTION Infertility is the problem of 15% of young couples in different societies. One of the factors that could affect fertility is oxidative stress. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to investigate the level of Melatonin, a free radical scavenger, and its correlation with oxidative biomarkers in infertile men. METHODS For this purpose, fertile and infertile men in 2 groups, 30...

AIM To establish the frequency of Y chromosome microdeletions in an unselected group of infertile Croatian men. METHODS An unselected group of 105 patients (male partners of infertile couples), both with idiopathic and non-idiopathic infertility, consecutively referred to the outpatient infertility clinic, gynecology department, General Hospital Pula, Istria County, Croatia, was examined for ...

The patients included in this study were retrospectively evaluated females and males, who possess a risk for infertility. Over the past 15 years in our laboratory, postnatal karyotyping was done in 160 couples and 210 individuals with unexplained infertility (total 530 infertile cases). The mean age of the women was 32 years (range 19–40), and that of the men was 36 years (range 26–60 years). T...